Derby Trail Tracker

2019 Kentucky Derby Early Pace Projection: Part 1

Forget everything that you’ve learned so far on the Road to the 2019 Kentucky Derby. The 1 1/16-mile races don’t mean anything. The one-turn, 1-mile races mean even less. They […]

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Kentucky Derby Trail Tracker: Gotham a Play-In Race for Sprinters

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. When the Kentucky Derby points system was first instituted for qualification into the race in 2013, the news release read that the goal […] Read More

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Kentucky Derby Trail Tracker: Fountain May Drown Out Holy Bull Memories

Almost every year around this time, a huge longshot unexpectedly wins a major Kentucky Derby points race, kicking up a dense cloud of dust along the Derby trail and making […] Read More

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Derby Trail Tracker: 2018 Kentucky Derby Field Projection

With the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby complete following a win by the Todd Pletcher-trained Noble Indy, the first 100-point race in the Kentucky Derby Championship Series is in the books. […] Read More

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Derby Trail Tracker: How Many Points To Make the Derby Gate?

As we travel down the Kentucky Derby trail, the best 3-year-old horses are clicking off points in order to run under the twin spires at Churchill Downs on the first […] Read More

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Derby Trail Tracker: The Big Two Heat Up Pace

The action on the Kentucky Derby Trail was fast and furious over a half-hour’s time last Saturday. I think that the Santa Anita stewards’ decision in the Grade 2 San Felipe […] Read More

Triple Crown

Derby Trail Tracker: Early Speed Reigns Supreme

The chalk dust fog of dominating favorites which once shrouded the Kentucky Derby Trail has fully cleared, with two consecutive unpredictable turns taking us on roller coaster-like loop de loops. […] Read More

Podcast

BLINKERS OFF 282: Fountain of Youth Preview, Rapid-Fire, and Derby Trail Tracker

The Thoroughbred Racing Dudes preview the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes (this weekend’s Kentucky Derby prep race from Gulfstream Park), give rapid-fire selections for the other major stakes […] Read More

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Derby Trail Tracker: Pletcher’s Top 20

Can you hear an impending stampede getting louder as we start our turn into the Championship Series of the Kentucky Derby Trail? For those accustomed to the rush of Todd […] Read More

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Derby Trail Tracker: Will Favorites Continue to Win?

The Kentucky Derby Trail is already heating up and it’s still the dead of winter on the east coast! 2018 has gotten off to a very good start. McKinzie and Mask both […] Read More