Your essential 2026 Kentucky Derby Prep Map is here. Explore the key tracks and races where contenders earn points for the ...

Less than five weeks remain until the starting gate opens for the 2025 Kentucky Derby to the roar of more than 150,000, and this weekend will be the most important weekend for horses trying to make ...

The Cigar Mile at Aqueduct and another spate of early Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks preps highlight weekend horse racing ...

The Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby features a series of prep races offering qualifying points for "The Run for the Roses", which will take place in just a few months, on Saturday, May 3. The top five ...

The major Kentucky Derby preps are in the books, and the prospective field for the Run for the Roses is starting to take shape. There’s one more prep coming up Saturday, but the Grade 3 Lexington only ...

The focus of the 2025 Kentucky Derby prep schedule shifts to Oaklawn Park on Sunday, when a field of 14 three year-olds lines up for the $1,250,000 Rebel Stakes (G2). Recent race results have ...

The Risen Star is one of seven races in the series that award the winner 50 qualifying points toward the Kentucky Derby. That ...

Next-race plans remain pending for Rebel Stakes (G2) winner and Kentucky Derby (G1) candidate Coal Battle , trainer Lonnie Briley said March 9. Briley said Coal Battle is under consideration for the ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --Three major Kentucky Derby preps, from New York to Florida and California, are the feature on the weekend horse racing menu, with side dishes that include Dubai's "Super Saturday" and ...

Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from major Kentucky Derby (G1) prep races held on each coast April 5, the Santa Anita Derby (G1) in California and the 100th Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Race ...