Derby preps

The road to the Kentucky Derby will kick into gear this weekend with the first major prep race in New Orleans, derby preps. The Risen Star is one of six races in the series that award the winner 50 qualifying points toward the Kentucky Derby on May 4 at Churchill Downs, derby preps. The eight major races in the series — starting March 23 with the Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park and Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds — derby preps award points to the winner and 50 to the runner-up. Keeneland also will host the final points race — the Lexington — on April 13, with 20 points going to the derby preps.

Follow the road to the Derby with Horse Racing Nation! For the 12th year, a points system will be used to determine entrants for the Kentucky Derby. The updated race schedule and point values are below. The following are results of each prep race and points earned. The table will be updated reflecting any changes to the schedule. Once again, horses trained by any individual suspended from racing in the Kentucky Derby cannot earn points to the race. Horses who do run on the medication will not receive Derby points.

Derby preps

Held each year at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Horses compete in the Kentucky Derby after qualifying through a series of preparatory races known as the Road to the Kentucky Derby. These stakes races are held at racetracks across the country and award Derby qualifying points to the top four finishers. The Derby starters are comprised of the horses with the most qualifying points, with two of the 20 spots reserved for the top qualifiers from the European and Japanese Road to the Derby qualifying events. The Kentucky Derby has many traditions, including drinking mint juleps, wearing festive hats, and singing "My Old Kentucky Home" as the horses enter the track. Its sister race, the Kentucky Oaks, exclusively for 3-year-old fillies, takes place the day before the Kentucky Derby, on the first Friday in May. The horse who wins the Kentucky Derby receives a blanket of red roses, the official flower of the Kentucky Derby. The winning horse becomes the only horse eligible to complete that year's Triple Crown, by running in and winning the two other legs of the series. The Kentucky Derby is open only to 3-year-olds that are nominated to the Triple Crown series, and have earned enough qualifying points. Horses earn qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby through a series of prep races run September — April at multiple tracks across the country. Points available for the races range from , depending on the quality of the race and where the horse finishes. Currently a maximum of 20 horses can run in the Kentucky Derby. The largest field was 23 horses for the th running of the Kentucky Derby. The smallest field was just 3 horses and Skip to main content.

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We may not have known it at the time, but the eventual Kentucky Derby winner three of the last four years came through one of these points preps that will be run again this weekend. Authentic won the Grade 2 San Felipe in at Santa Anita on his way through the outbreak of a human pandemic and a six-month wait before he took the Derby at an empty Churchill Downs. Click here for entries and results at all tracks. If not for that bob of the head against Erase, he would not have finished fourth, would not have gotten that all-important point, would not have been an also-eligible entrant in Louisville and would not have drawn in the day before he was the winner of the Derby. From that result in the Fountain of Youth G2 through a runner-up finish in the Florida Derby G1 , he would pull off the upset last year in Louisville.

Derby preps

The upcoming weekend marks the high point of prep season for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve , with three major races scheduled that each offer a total of qualifying points to the top four finishers. The show begins at p. Click image to purchase shirt. TVG is the go-to network for in-depth coverage of the Keeneland April meet as well. That meet begins Friday, April 8 and runs through Friday, April Racing analysts Gabby Gaudet and Scott Hazelton host the program, which airs live at a. They'll be joined by surprise guests and handicappers and have live analysis right up until post time for the big race.

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Fifty points has been enough to make the Derby field each year since Churchill Downs instituted the points system for the running. Eyeing Clover has won both his starts for trainer Brad Cox. He debuted a winner in the final day of at Oaklawn Park, then won a six-furlong allowance race Jan.

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