Kentucky Derby News

June 15, 2016

Effinex, winner of 2015 GI Clark, Returns As Even-Money Choice in $500,000 GI Stephen Foster 'Cap

Tri-bone Stables’ Effinex, the $2,682,950-earner who won last fall’s Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (Grade I), returns to Churchill Downs as the red-hot, even-money morning line favorite and 122-pound high weight for Saturday...

June 15, 2016

Champion, Kentucky Oaks Winner Untapable Looks to Regain Winning Form in Fleur De Lis

Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC’s 5-year-old homebred mare Untapable, the winner of the Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) and Breeders’ Cup Distaff (GI) in 2014 en route to being crowned that year’s Champion 3-Year-Old Filly, looks to regain...

June 15, 2016

The Pizza Man Reunites with Geroux For 'Downs After Dark' Grade II Wise Dan

The Pizza Man, the Eclipse Award finalist for 2015 Champion Male Turf Horse owned and bred by Midwest Thoroughbreds Inc. of Richard and Karen Papiese, will be reunited with jockey Florent Geroux when the 7-year-old gelding meets a field of 11 3-year-olds...

June 13, 2016

Asmussen's Untapable, Gun Runner Work Toward Stephen Foster 'Downs After Dark' Races

The Steve Asmussen-trained duo of Gun Runner, third in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I), and 2014 Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI) winner Untapable both breezed a half-mile for their respective starts in the $100,000 Matt Winn (GIII) and...

June 12, 2016

Cox's 1-2 Old Forester Mint Julep Duo Likely to Head Separate Ways

Trainer Brad Cox’s pair of 5-year-old mares Cash Control and Sweet Acclaim, who ran one-two in Saturday’s Old Forester Mint Julep Handicap (Grade III) exited their efforts in good order following the 1 1/16-mile grass event and will likely...

June 11, 2016

Eagle, Ahh Chocolate Could Provide Big Stephen Foster Night for Howard

Trainer Neil Howard has enjoyed a successful year so far with graded stakes winners Eagle, who defeated multiple graded stakes winner Noble Bird in Keeneland’s Ben Ali (Grade III) on April 16, and Ahh Chocolate, a winner of the Allaire DuPont Distaff...

June 11, 2016

Cash Control edges Sweet Acclaim in Grade III Old Forester Mint Julep Battle of Brad Cox Trainees

Richard and Bertram Klein’s 5-year-old mare Cash Control slipped through an opening along the rail at the head of the stretch, grabbed the lead at the three-sixteenths pole and narrowly held on to beat stablemate Sweet Acclaim (IRE) by a head to...

June 10, 2016

Kiss Moon Bids for Back-to-Back Victories in GIII Old Forester Mint Julep

Last Saturday, Alsvid scored a victory in the Aristides (Grade III) for the second consecutive year. This Saturday, Carl Pollard’s Kiss Moon will be looking to do the same when she attempts to defend her title against nine other fillies and mares...

June 9, 2016

Venerable Majestic Harbor 'Just Cruising' in Breeze for GI Stephen Foster

Paul McGee, trainer of Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) contender Majestic Harbor. (Churchill Downs)

Corey Lanerie, who sits atop the Spring Meet jockey standings heading into Thursday's racing, will ride Majestic Harbor in next week's Grade...

June 8, 2016

Belmont Stakes Simulcast, Twilight Thursday, Growing Single 6 Highlight Racing Week

The simulcast of the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes (Grade I) and the bid by Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) runner-up and Preakness (GI) winner Exaggerator to win two of the three jewels of racing’s 2016 Triple Crown tops the roster...

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