Perhaps in two months trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. will start focusing on the Kentucky Derby (G1). For now anyway, he's quite ...

NEW YORK — Captain Cook won the $250,000 Withers by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Saturday, putting the 3-year-old colt ...

A field of five Kentucky Derby hopefuls face the starter in Southern California, while both the Withers and the Holy Bull ...

Practical Joke colt went from maiden winner to stakes winner and earned 20 qualifying points toward eligibility for the ...

TDN Rising Star' Captain Cook (Practical Joke), a runaway maiden winner going seven furlongs in the Aqueduct slop Dec. 28, delivered as the 7-5 favorite stretching to 1 1/8 miles in Saturday's Withers ...

Kentucky Derby doings heat up significantly in weekend racing with 2024 juvenile champion Citizen Bull returning in the ...

The first couple of performances by a young horse can be deceiving. One mediocre effort followed by a strong race can raise a ...

The Derby trail takes back the spotlight this weekend with three key Kentucky Derby prep races from coast-to-coast on Saturday afternoon. Here’s a capsule look at all three of the Derby prep races.

When Mo Quality (Mo Town) failed to meet his reserve as a 2-year-old, Gary Broad's Walmac Farm opted to race the colt in their own silks and send him on to trainer Chris Davis. Looking back now, Davis ...

At 1 1/8 miles in distance, Saturday’s Withers S. at Aqueduct is the longest Road to the Kentucky Derby qualifier contested ...

The nine-furlong test on Saturday at Aqueduct will award qualifying points for the year's first classic test at Churchill ...

And then the final minutes, too — and again, in a season of late-game letdowns — when UNC went more than three minutes ...