Topic: Horse Racing

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.

The "Road to the Kentucky Derby" winds through Virginia for the first time this weekend, as the Virginia Derby joins the series with some serious contenders for the Run for the Roses.

Thorpedo Anna won her 3-year-old debut Saturday at Oaklawn Park, while Owen Almighty qualified at Tampa Bay Downs for a Kentucky Derby run, but will he take up the challenge?

The 2024 U.S. Horse of the Year, Thorpedo Anna, steals the weekend horse racing spotlight from the sole Kentucky Derby prep -- the Tampa Bay Derby.

Journalism, Sovereignty and Flood Zone all moved well along on the Road to the Kentucky Derby with weekend victories.

Super Saturday in Dubai, a showdown in Australia, the final steppingstone to the Hong Kong Derby and aspirational 3-year-old fillies in Japan -- all in weekend horse racing around the globe.

Kentucky Derby preps at Santa Anita, Gulfstream Park and Aqueduct top the weekend racing schedule, with Super Saturday in Dubai taking center stage on the global scene.

Old Man Winter, a key scratch and a fizzle in Saudi Arabia disrupted weekend traffic on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, but new candidates still surfaced from Arkansas to Japan to Dubai.

The stretch battle between Japan's Forever Young and Hong Kong's Romantic Warrior was one for the ages and only the pinnacle of a weekend of top racing around the globe.

It's a full weekend of horse racing around the globe with a major Kentucky Derby prep on the slate in Arkansas but the best race of the weekend, and maybe the whole year, is the $20 million Saudi Cup in Riyadh.