In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Though only a G2 race, the Risen Star has arguably had a more recent impact on the Kentucky Derby than any G1 prep. The last ...

Mystik Dan as a live longshot in last year's Kentucky Derby, has identified his five best futures plays for this year's Run ...

The Risen Star Stakes features the return of the highly-touted East Avenue, but Robert Criscola's horse racing betting picks ...

As the top prep races approach for the Kentucky Derby on May 3 at Churchill Downs, we take a look at 20 of the top horses on the trail.

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Now it gets serious. The $500,000 Risen Star Stakes (G2) on Saturday is the first 105-point qualifying race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. The winner gets 50 points, usually more than enough ...

Out of the shadows of his stablemates, Getaway Car is the favorite for trainer Bob Baffert in the $400,000 Sunland Park Derby.

While Hoop Jr. and Crozier were the second betting choices in their respective Derbies, the Fred Hooper-owned colt that was ...

West Virginia's Tucker DeVries will have surgery for an upper-body injury and miss the rest of the season. His father, West Virginia’s first-year coach, Darian DeVries, made the announcement Tuesday.

Churchill Downs announces 373 nominees for the 2025 Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont for this never-changing fee.

Sixty of the nominees have already won stakes races, including the top 10 point leaders on the Road to the Kentucky Derby: ...