Topic: Steve Asmussen

Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and Kentucky Oaks winner Thorpedo Anna return to Churchill Downs Saturday as high points of a glittering Stephen Foster Day program.

A look at the nine 3-year-olds entered for Saturday's Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel of the U.S. Triple Crown, and thoughts on their chances.

Saturday's Preakness Stakes, second jewel of the Triple Crown, drew only three of the 19 Kentucky Derby starters, but the race nonetheless has plenty of interesting facets.

With Sovereignty in the books as the 151st Kentucky Derby winner, the question shifts to: Will he forge on to try to win the Triple Crown? And who might he face in the Preakness Stakes?

The 151st running of the Kentucky Derby is set for Saturday at the storied Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Here is who is running.

Thorpedo Anna won the Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap and Carl Spackler landed the Grade I Maker's Mark Mile, polishing already shiny records in weekend horse racing.

Anticipation and nerves start to build on the Churchill Downs backstretch as Kentucky Derby runners arrive; other 3-year-olds run in Japan, France and England.

The field is set, subject to late defections, for the May 3 Kentucky Derby. Here are the horses set for the race.

Tiztastic won the Louisiana Derby and Final Gambit won the Jeff Ruby Steaks, and now both are qualified to start in the Kentucky Derby.

The Kentucky Derby is just six weeks from Saturday, and there's still much to be decided about the 20-horse field. But American Promise all but claimed a spot with a victory in Saturday's Virginia Derby.