Gormley, making only his second start, his first in a stakes race, and his first around two turns, improved significantly off his debut win at Del Mar with this victory, one that stamped him as a potential major player in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 5, a race run at the exact conditions – 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita – as the FrontRunner.
Churchill Downs will award a Japanese horse an automatic berth in next year's Kentucky Derby under a new program assigning points to participants in two Japanese stakes races, the track announced on Monday.
Goldfeder: What was I thinking - Kentucky Derby Day
The final rating for the Kentucky Derby broadcast on NBC on Saturday was a 9.0, according to the network, down 6.3 percent from the 9.6 final rating for the broadcast last year.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Kentucky Derby fourth-place finisher Mohaymen would not run in either the Preakness or the Belmont, but instead will have the Travers on Aug. 27 as his next major goal, with a possible start in the Jim Dandy on July 30.
Nyquist, the Kentucky Derby winner and champion juvenile, could have been had by anyone willing to be the highest bidder on three separate occasions.
Uncle Mo was already the hottest young sire on the planet before the first Saturday in May, but just how much hotter will he get after Nyquist’s victory in the 142nd Kentucky Derby? Does any doubt remain that Uncle Mo is the real deal?
Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum's Darley America picked up another big win for its stallion roster on Friday when Cathryn Sophia, a daughter of Street Boss, drew away to win the Kentucky Oaks. The following day, future Darley resident Nyquist took home the roses as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby.
Nyquist was an unbeaten juvenile champion, just like his sire, and was made the morning-line favorite for the Kentucky Derby, just like his sire. The question was, could he go the classic distance, something his sire had never done?
The race portion of a three-plus-hour broadcast of the Kentucky Derby on NBC Saturday posted a 9.3 overnight rating, according to the television network, down 14 percent compared with the overnight rating for the same portion of the broadcast last year.
