LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Great White is running on Saturday at Churchill Downs. Trainer John Ennis just doesn’t know yet in what race, or crucially, at what distance.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Jockey Cristian Torres won arguably the two most important races of his career the afternoon of Feb. 6 at Oaklawn Park.
He captured the Grade 3, $1 million Southwest Stakes aboard Silent Tactic for John Oxley and the $300,000 Martha Washington with Search Party for Tracy Farmer.
Fast forward to this weekend, and the 3-year-olds trained by Hall of Fame horseman Mark Casse will be Torres’s first mounts in the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks.
It’s a significant achievement for Torres, a 28-year-old native of Puerto Rico who began riding in 2019.
Spendthrift Farm’s orange and purple silks will be carried by just one horse in the Kentucky Derby. But, in addition to focusing on dominant Blue Grass winner Further Ado, the farm’s principals could be forgiven if their eyes stray elsewhere in the big field on Saturday.
Four Kentucky Derby entrants are from the first crops of their respective sires, which could give a big leg up to young stallions still building their résumés.
The four, all in the main body of the field, from the inside of the gate out, are Albus, by Yaupon (who stands at Spendthrift Farm); Danon Bourbon, by Maxfield (Darley); The Puma, by Essential Quality (Darley); and Silent Tactic, by Tacitus (Taylor Made Farm).
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – One of the spires might as well be missing.
This is the first Kentucky Derby week in the memory of most at Churchill Downs in which the legendary D. Wayne Lukas is not on his stable pony pre-dawn, with an eagle eye on his own horses and the competition. The Hall of Fame trainer died last June 28 at age 89.
“For Wayne, this was what he lived for,” said trainer Todd Pletcher, one of Lukas's many successful former assistants. “It won’t be the same without him, for sure.”
Sun, 04/26/2026 - 14:29
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Bob Baffert is no longer coming to Kentucky Derby 152 under the radar.
Potente, a 20-1 shot on the morning line, may have raised his profile while lowering his odds with a scorching five-furlong workout in 57.77 seconds Sunday morning over the Churchill Downs main track. It’s not so much that he worked fast – the main track produced many fast times Sunday morning – as it is how he did it and how he seemingly came out of it.
Sat, 04/25/2026 - 14:39
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Renegade was among the last of the Kentucky Derby starters to arrive on the grounds when his van from Florida came through the Churchill Downs gates around 2:45 a.m. Saturday.
About 12 hours later, Renegade was the second name called at the post-position draw, at which he was matched up with post 1. There was no truth to the rumor that his connections planned to put Renegade back on a van headed for Maryland and the Preakness in three weeks.
Fri, 04/24/2026 - 14:43
CHURCHILL DOWNS
Friday, April 24
Weather: Sunny
Temp. 67°
Track: Fast
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The 2026 Churchill Downs spring meeting does not open until Saturday but there was plenty of action out on the racetrack Friday morning, especially during the 7:15-7:30 workout window reserved for Kentucky Derby and Oaks hopefuls, their workmates, and 2025 Derby winner Sovereignty.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If So Happy were a professional athlete, he might be akin to Allen Iverson, the NBA All-Star who had a disdain for practice.
Practice? Don’t talk to So Happy about practice.
“You wouldn’t buy him out of a sale breezing,” Mike Smith, the Hall of Fame jockey who has been So Happy’s regular rider, said Friday morning.