A Kentucky circuit court judge said Monday he will issue a ruling by the end of the week on whether to grant a temporary injunction that would allow horses trained by Bob Baffert and owned by Amr Zedan to start in this year’s Kentucky Derby despite a ban by Churchill Downs on the trainer.

ARCADIA, Calif. – One year after riding in his first Kentucky Derby, champion Canadian jockey Kazushi Kimura picked up his second Derby mount. Kimura will ride lightly raced Japanese colt T O Password in the 2024 Kentucky Derby, his California agent Brian Beach confirmed.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Sunday was a very good day for trainer Victor Barboza Jr. and the connections of Grand Mo the First, who got in his first work since finishing a well-beaten third behind Fierceness in the Grade 1 Florida Derby while also moving one step closer to gaining a spot in this year’s Kentucky Derby.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Encino dug in in the stretch to turn back The Wine Steward by three-quarters of a length in the Grade 3, $400,000 Lexington Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland, a victory that may earn him a shot at Triple Crown competition.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Unbeaten in two starts in the West in 2024, Stronghold, the winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, will be rated as a longshot when he starts in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4.

That’s cool with trainer Phil D’Amato.

“I don’t mind going in under the radar,” D’Amato said.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A relaxed and affable Chad Brown worked several sets of horses Sunday morning at Keeneland, and why wouldn’t Brown be walking on air? Brown had runners Saturday at four racecourses, and from 14 races his stable ended the day with eight winners. Not a bad haul. At Aqueduct, Brown won the Bay Shore with Reasoned Analysis and the Distaff with Shidabhuti, and capped the day here in the Blue Grass Stakes with the most important horse in Brown’s stable right now, Sierra Leone. 

Fierceness, the runaway winner of the March 30 Florida Derby, emerged as the strong favorite in the final Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool, settling at 5-2.

The final future wager closed on Saturday afternoon prior to the running of three major preps for the Kentucky Derby, so the prices of the pool do not reflect the performances of the horses in those races, including Sierra Leone’s victory from well off the pace in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.

Hades' connections are ready to take one more swing to get into the Kentucky Derby.

Hades, coming off a disappointing fifth-place finish in last week’s Grade 1 Florida Derby, was entered Saturday for next Saturday’s Grade 3, $400,000 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland. The Lexington, at 1 1/16 miles, is the last points-scoring race for the Kentucky Derby.