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 ...

Daily Racing Form Kentucky Oaks 2026: With just two starts under her belt, Always a Runner fulfills potential with win 9:11pm ...

Marcus Hersh is based in Chicago and New Orleans and covers Arlington Park, Hawthorne, and Fair Grounds. He joined Daily Racing Form in 1998.

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 ...

A serious illness last summer cost Ways and Means a good chunk of her 2025 campaign. A far less serious illness could compromise her main rival, Splendora, in the Derby City Distaff on Saturday at ...

Daily Racing Form Weekly Divisional Ratings By Marcus Hersh ...

TimeformUS past performances are a revolutionary way to look at horse racing pace and pace-adjusted speed figures to get an instant analysis of how the race will be run. TimeformUS Speed Figures are ...

The success of Japan-based horses in America and internationally has fueled thoughts that a Kentucky Derby may soon be within reach for a horse from the Land of the Rising Sun. For the fourth straight ...

Executives at Churchill Downs Inc. said on Thursday morning during a conference call that a recent agreement to purchase a ...

In Article Audio Player One of history’s greatest horseplayers, George E. Smith, better known as “Pittsburg Phil,” was collared in the paddock one day in the 1890s by a young Jacob Ruppert, then a ...

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Mike Welsch lives in south Florida covering Gulfstream and Calder. He clocks horses for Daily Racing Form leading up to the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup, among other national events. He joined DRF ...