Godolphin’s Unbeaten Derby Favourite
Essential Quality has won all of his five starts, including the Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Gr1 Keeneland Breeders’ Futurity
30th April 2021
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Essential Quality has won all of his five starts, including the Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Gr1 Keeneland Breeders’ Futurity
This year’s belated Gr1 Kentucky Derby will create history at Churchill Downs, and it’s not because of so many likely starters from lesser known stables
A strange decision – and an appeal looks likely
Rain has fallen on Derby day 68 times over its past 144 runnings. With over three inches of rainfall on race day, last year’s was the wettest-ever Kentucky Derby.
Justify, the unbeaten winner of Saturday’s 144th G1 Kentucky Derby, is yet another feather in the cap of the short-lived sire, Scat Daddy
The most exciting two minutes in sport, the 2018 Kentucky Derby – the 144th renewal – will be run on Saturday 5 May at Churchill Downs
Nyquist, who is undefeated in seven career races, will try to become the fifth horse since 1900 to win the Kentucky Derby from the No. 13 post
California breds rarely win the Kentucky Derby, cheap homebreds almost never and horses trained at Los Alamitos? But the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
The most exciting two minutes in sport will not be broadcast on Tellytrack this weekend and there will be no Saftote betting facilities available.
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
