Nine horses will vie for 21 Road to the Kentucky Derby qualification points in Saturday’s $250,000 Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn ...

A talented and well-matched field of nine recently turned three-year-olds will travel 1 1/16 miles at Oaklawn Park on Saturday in the $250,000 Smarty Jones S. The 2026 Road to the Kentucky Derby ...

Multiple graded-placed Global Campaign colt, third in the top-level Champagne in October, is set to meet eight rivals Jan. 3 ...

Universe, a closing second in the 2025 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) after two earlier graded stakes placings, aims to ...

Trainer Kenny McPeek's multiple graded-placed Universe could aim for a stakes breakthrough early next month in Oaklawn's ...

Bob Ehalt, for America's Best Racing, handicaps the field of nine 3-year-olds entered in the Jan. 1 race at Oaklawn Park.

Smarty Jones, the Pennsylvania-bred horse that captured the hearts of sports and horse fans across the world during his historic race for the Triple Crown in 2004, is the subject of a new documentary, ...

Sourpusses argue that a racehorse, even one as grand as Smarty Jones, is not an athlete. They say that it (not a he or a she) does not aspire be a champion, does not consciously train to win and break ...

Jockeys Ricardo Santana, Jr. (4) riding Mr. Butch and Alberto Pusac (6) riding God's Country round a curve during the 5th ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — First-time jockeys hardly ever win the Kentucky Derby. Before Saturday, only one Pennsylvania-bred had ever won the Derby. Undefeated horses have a way of stumbling in the Derby.

Roy Chapman, who with his wife, Pat, raced Smarty Jones, the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, died Friday at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Doylestown, Pa. He was 79 and had suffered ...