A visit with trainer D. Wayne Lukas on life, racing, basketball and some key current topics: the filly Secret Oath, colt Ethereal Road, and Bob Baffert.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association today released its weekly Top Thoroughbred Poll.
Classic Causeway cruised in the G2 Tampa Bay Derby to move to the top of the Derby points leaderboard and secure a spot in the Kentucky Derby.
Un Ojo scored a 75-1 shocker in Oaklawn’s Rebel Stakes Saturday to earn 50 points on the trail to the Kentucky Derby.
Epicenter posted a front-running score in the Risen Star Stakes, the first 50-point Derby trail race, to take over the points lead.
A big field, including two of the top three runners in Derby points earned, will contest Saturday’s Risen Star at the Fair Grounds, the first 50-point race.
Classic Causeway won the Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs to take over the top spot in the Derby points standings in one of two Saturday preps.
Messier’s spectacular 15-length win in Sunday’s Robert B. Lewis Stakes earned the Bob Baffert trainee exactly zero Kentucky Derby points. Again.
A pair of horses, Early Voting and White Abarrio, scored impressively in Saturday Derby preps to earn their first wins on the Triple Crown trail.
Three races offering points on the road to the Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown are scheduled for this weekend, with one having a Midlantic flavor.