Category: Kentucky Derby Road to the Roses

Cheyenne Stables’ Mastery made his stakes debut a winning one, capturing the $100,000 Bob Hope Stakes (GIII) at Del Mar by 1 ¼ lengths over California Diamond in just his second career race. The bay …

The racing world will have their eyes on Vinton, Louisiana on Saturday as Delta Downs runs a special 11-race afternoon card with eight stakes races, offering $2.3 million in purse money. The feature race of …

The Futurity Stakes (GI) — sometimes referred to as the Belmont Futurity — was at one time, in the late 1800s, the richest race in North America. Up until 1957, horses were eligible to run …

In the years before the Breeders’ Cup became the last stop for connections looking to garner a year-end award for their runners (and even many years after), the Frizette Stakes (GI) was a “must” event …

Every horse owner’s dream is to win The Kentucky Derby. This is my story. In November 2014 I attended my first Breeder’s Cup Championship weekend at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. On the undercard, …

Jerry and Ann Moss’ Gormley ran right into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI) picture with his impressive wire-to-wire performance in Saturday’s $300,000 Frontrunner Stakes (GI) at Santa Anita Park. The recent Del Mar maiden winner, …

Everyone knows — or at least they should — that, when it comes to big races, sometimes the smart idea is to bet the “other Baffert.” In Saturday’s $300,000 Chandelier Stakes (GI) at Santa Anita …

At Belmont Park on Saturday, it is the first of two “Super Saturdays” that will be held at Big Sandy. There are five graded stakes scheduled to be run, three of them grade 1 races …

With his win aboard Da Big Hoss in Saturday’s Grade III Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup, jockey Florent Geroux has notched twenty-three graded stakes victories in 2016. It was his fiftieth career graded stakes win. …

Every year, the racing world looks forward to the unveiling of many promising 2-year-olds as the summer racing season kicks in. The best and most precocious 2-year-olds seem to emerge earlier in the year, while …