The Championship Series on the Road to the Kentucky Derby shifts from 50-point races to 100-point races starting with the ...

The Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby features a series of prep races offering qualifying points for “The Run for the Roses”, which will take place in just a few months, on Saturday, May 3. The top five ...

Kentucky Derby rankings are determined by a points system that assigns a point value to each of the designated prep races leading up to the Kentucky Derby during the first Saturday of May.

The race is open to up to 20 3-year-old horses that have qualified through Churchill Downs' "Road to the Kentucky Derby" points system, which was first implemented for the 2013 running.

The upping of the points ante in the Road to the Kentucky Derby series over the past month means one big effort can cause a horse to rocket up the charts from zero to the pinnacle, and the same ...

The Kentucky Derby features the top 20 point-earners on the leaderboard after a series of prep races. The last prep race in the United States is the Lexington Stakes on April 12. The Kentucky ...

The Road to the Kentucky Derby Series that determines preferences for horses getting into the Derby starting gate has been tweaked this year to award a lower total ...

A cut below California's best—having already lost to Journalism and Citizen Bull , two of the early Kentucky Derby favorites—Getaway Car is most effective when he can establish the pace. In the ...

There's a new leader in the Kentucky Derby point standings, though the culture shock over Coal Battle may cause fainting spells in the Bluegrass State. Fifty points for winning the Grade II ...

Was it the $750,000 in purses or the 50 Kentucky Oaks and Derby qualifying points to the winners that made this weekend's Virginia Derby and Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs so attractive to some ...