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12 Pedigree fun facts: Angel of Empire at the Kentucky Derby. The 2023 Kentucky Derby is the 149th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.

Keeneland has cataloged 80 horses for its April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale, to be held Sunday, April 30. The sale, which will begin at 4 p.m. ET, will be livestreamed on Keeneland.com.

Disarm seeks Derby berth in Lexington at the Kentucky Derby. The 2023 Kentucky Derby is the 149th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.

The Wood Memorial at Aqueduct Racetrack this Saturday remains a prestigious race on the road to the Kentucky Derby — but it’s been a long time since the

BREEDING INSIGHTS: Hans Andersen’s rags to riches story 2023-04-07

When Classic Empire won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile by a neck from Not This Time (by Giant’s Causeway) in 2016, it seemed that Kentucky Derby second Pioneerof the Nile (Empire Maker) was fashioning his own branch of the most classic line of Mr. Prospector.

Chad Brown will have two chances to secure his fourth Grade 3, $250,000 Gazelle conquest with stakes-winners Occult and Shidabhuti

"He proved shipping wasn’t a concern and he’s familiar with the surroundings going on the road,” Cox said of Wood Memorial entrant Hit Show.

Michael Dubb’s Bramble Bay has been named the 2022 New Jersey-bred Horse of the Year, champion turf runner, and champion older female by the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association of New Jersey. 

Pin Oak Stud’s Empirestrikesfast has been added to the list of late Triple Crown nominations after a clerical error was discovered.