Welcome to 2024 Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the Triple Crown trail, usually from the Road to the Kentucky Derby prep series that offers qualifying points for the first leg of the series. The 1 ¼-mile Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve will be held May 4, 2024, at Churchill Downs.
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Politics Can Wait When NBC’s Steve Kornacki Tackles Eclipse Ballot
Now that all of the Eclipse Award ballots have been cast and the results fed to the tabulators, it’s safe to unleash Steve Kornacki into the conversation. Best known as the national election and poll analyst for the family of NBC news programming, Kornacki is revving up for a wild and crazy year, commencing with the Iowa Republican party caucuses of Jan. 15, followed by the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 23.
White Abarrio Tops North American Earnings List for 2023
With a pair of lucrative victories in his final two starts of the season, White Abarrio soared to the top of the North American racing earnings list for 2023.
Favored Drum Roll Please Wins Jerome Stakes, Banks Derby Points
Trainer Brad Cox made it 2-for-2 in the first two 3-year-old Kentucky Derby prep races of 2024 when Drum Roll Please took charge leaving the eighth pole and did not miss a beat in recording a 3 3/4-length victory in the $145,500 Jerome Stakes Jan. 6 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
