From Churchill Downs (edited) War Pass, the champion 2-year-old of 2007 and winner of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Monmouth Park, has suffered a leg injury that has knocked the colt out of the Kentucky Derby. Trainer Nick Zito said on Saturday that x-rays had revealed a small fracture in the sesamoid in...

Robert LaPenta’s War Pass , the champion 2-year-old of 2007 and winner of the $2 million Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (Grade I) at Monmouth Park, has suffered a leg injury that has knocked the colt out of the $2 million guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI). read more

Four Roses Thoroughbreds’ Anak Nakal , winner of the $250,000-added Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (Grade II) at Churchill Downs, continued his preparation for a run in the $2 million-guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) with a four-furlong work over the Louisville track on Friday. read...

BIG BROWN (Boundary), the undefeated winner of the Florida Derby (G1), worked five furlongs in 1:00 3/5 on a fast track at Palm Meadows on Friday. The Richard Dutrow-trained colt is a leading contender for the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby (G1) on May 3 at Churchill Downs. read more

Trainer Barclay Tagg, fresh off his second consecutive victory in the Wood Memorial, said Tale of Ekati shipped well to Keeneland and was in outstanding shape after Saturday’s win. “He came with me last night and everything is right,” said Tagg, who will now concentrate on Elysium Fields and Big Truck...

Charles E. Fipke's homebred TALE OF EKATI (Tale of the Cat) and champion War Pass (Cherokee Run) were both hoping to restore the luster to their tarnished reputations in Saturday's $750,000 Wood Memorial (GI) at Aqueduct. read more

Two horses who began the afternoon positioned tenuously are squarely in the Kentucky Derby frame after Saturday’s Grade I Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, both reversing recent setbacks to rejuvenate their positions in the pecking order of Louisville-bound three-year-olds. Tale of Ekati, sixth in the Louisiana...

Champion two-year-old WAR PASS (Cherokee Run), the 6-5 morning line favorite for Saturday's $750,000 Wood Memorial (G1), arrived in New York on Thursday afternoon after a choppy and turbulence-filled flight from Florida. read more

WAR PASS (Cherokee Run) tops a field of 10 in Saturday's 84th running of the Wood Memorial (G1), and the 1 1/8-mile contest will serve as a benchmark for the champion juvenile. read more

With a forecast for heavy rain on Friday and more on Saturday, War Pass, who attempts to rebound from an inexplicably poor effort in the Tampa Bay Derby last month, the first loss of his six-race career, may have his final Kentucky Derby prep in the Wood Memorial on a wet track., conditions similar to...