This feature provides a capsule look at three horses who are heating up on the Triple Crown trail and three horses whose chances for the 2023 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve are not quite as strong as they were a few weeks ago.
Woodbine Entertainment is pleased to announce that The Queen’s Plate, North America’s longest continuously run stakes race, will once again be known as The King’s Plate.
This exciting next chapter of Canada’s premier Thoroughbred horse race, which will take place on Sunday, Aug. 20 in 2023, follows the September 2022 accession of King Charles III.
The $3,000 horse from obscurity just became one of next year's top turf prospects with his powerful late-running victory in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on Dec. 3.
Welcome to 2023 Kentucky Derby Prospect Snapshots, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the Triple Crown trail, usually from a race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby schedule. That schedule consists of prep races offering qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby, running from September 2022 through mid-April 2023.
Dubyuhnell showed off his talents and scored a determined half-length victory over Arctic Arrogance in a sloppy renewal of the Grade 2 $250,000 Remsen Stakes on Dec. 3 at Aqueduct.
