A field of 20 horses is set to launch from the starting gate for the 2024Kentucky Derbytoday. The 150th Run for the Roses is expected to see 19 colts and a gelding dashing down the dirt track at Churchill Downs in Louisville to try to win the first leg of horse racing's Triple Crow...
Kentucky Derby Offers 19 HorsesED SCHUYLER JR., AP Racing Writer
PRACTICAL JOKE (Track Odds 32-1): Trained by Chad Brown, Joel Rosario will ride. Every horse racing expert worth his salt insists that he won’t be able to handle the Kentucky Derby distance of 1 ¼ miles. A decent year so far with a pair of seconds in the Grade 2 Blue Grass and...
The second favorite isFierceness, who won last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and is coming off back-to-back wins in the Jim Dandy and Travers Stakes. He ran an uninspiring 15th in the Kentucky Derby. There is also a Japanese horse, Forever Young, that is given a chance at 6-1....
HORSE RACING is an equestrian sport, involving two or more jockeys riding horses over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports and its basic premise - to identify which of two or more horses is the fastest over a set course or distance - has remained...
If Mystik Dan is in the Preakness field, the horse will be looking to take another step toward history. Here's what to know about the Triple Crown: What is the Triple Crown in horse racing? The Triple Crown features three races for 3-year-old thoroughbred horses, with ju...
They all got a shot in this big field with lots of outsiders that haven’t been proven! Watch at 6:45 for the Classic. And pick up a little luck at the shop – the Black is always a winner! Epicenter Messier NBC sports – coverage for the Kentucky Derby begins at 12 p.m. ET on...
“Especially now that we see how difficult it is for North American horses to go over there. Royal Ascot is like the Kentucky Derby on steroids.” Casse has dominated horse racing in Canada for many years and has won the Sovereign Award as the leading trainer 16 times. A leading tra...
(abscess, illness with fever, last minute sub on the slop while preparing for a turf race a week later), by killing the field and setting a track or world record after each loss - Derby (still standing TR), Marlboro Cup (WR for 1 1/8), MOW Stakes (TR in first race on grass)....
Once a Triple Crown contender having won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, Burgoo King did not run in the final race at Belmont. Maybe the sudden rise to horse racing fame got to him? I'm pretty sure the colt moved on to bigger and better things like lending its namesake to the ...