Steve Asmussen

Several Top 3-Year-Olds Anticipated for Oaklawn Stakes

HOT SPRINGS, AR – With much of the Kentucky Derby (G1) Trail on hold until further notice, this Saturday’s $200,000 Oaklawn Stakes is shaping up to be one of the […]

Kentucky Derby

Top 5 Horses to Benefit Most from a September 2020 Kentucky Derby

For the first time since 1945, the Kentucky Derby will not be ran in May. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Churchill Downs announced plans to move the race to September 5, 2020. […] Read More

Kentucky Oaks

Finite Looks for Six Straight in Fair Grounds Oaks

New Orleans, LA – Heading into her expected start in Saturday’s $400,000 Twinspires.com Fair Grounds Oaks (G2), Winchell Thoroughbreds and Thomas Reiman, William Dickson, and Debbie Easter’s Finite will carry with […] Read More

Kentucky Derby

Nadal Arrives to Oaklawn Looking to Give Baffert Seventh Rebel Win

HOT SPRINGS, AR – Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is No. 1 in Rebel Stakes victories, and his latest hope, Nadal, will break from post No. 1 in the […] Read More

Kentucky Derby

Silver Prospector Scoots Clear in Southwest

HOT SPRINGS, AR – Ed and Susie Orr’s Silver Prospector bounced back from an off-form effort last time out, scooting clear with a sharp move in the stretch to win the […] Read More

Kentucky Derby

Southwest Stakes Preview: Asmussen Loaded With Entries

The second of four Oaklawn Park-based Kentucky Derby prep races is set to go this Monday with the running of the Southwest Stakes (G3). A field of nine 3-year-olds will […] Read More

Kentucky Oaks

Finite Flies Free in Rachel Alexandra

NEW ORLEANS, LA – Trainer Steve Asmussen’s Finite got the jump on the 2-Year-Old division champ British Idiom in the far turn before flying free in the stretch to win Saturday’s […] Read More

Kentucky Oaks

Champion British Idiom makes sophomore debut in Saturday’s Rachel Alexandra

New Orleans, LA – Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) winner and Eclipse Award champion British Idiom will make her sophomore debut when facing six rivals, including Silverbulletday victress Finite, in Saturday’s $300,000 Rachel Alexandra […] Read More

Race Recaps

Share the Upside usurps Whitmore in King Cotton

HOT SPRINGS, AR – Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings and Windsor Boys Racing’s Share the Upside struck the lead early and had more than enough left to hold sway late over […] Read More

Kentucky Derby

Champion Storm the Court Tops 347 Early Triple Crown Nominees

LOUISVILLE, KY – Led by 2-year-old champion and upset Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Storm the Court, a total of 347 3-year-old Thoroughbreds were made eligible to compete in this year’s Triple Crown […] Read More