The Championship Series kicks off at Fair Grounds with the Risen Star Stakes, the first 50-point race on the Road to the ...

The Risen Star Stakes features the return of the highly-touted East Avenue, but Robert Criscola's horse racing betting picks ...

Hustled to the lead by Ben Curtis, Magnitude led from start to finish and scored by 9 3/4 lengths in the $500,000 Risen Star ...

Saturday’s Risen Star (G2) is the first Kentucky Derby qualifier of the year worth 50-25-15-10-5 points to the top five ...

Bred in Kentucky by Ron Stolich, Magnitude is out of the Bernardini mare Rockadelic. The dam was bred in Kentucky by Darley, ...

Andrew Champagne's top 20 contenders for the 2025 Kentucky Derby following the Risen Star Stakes and Sunland Derby ...

The Churchill Downs Road to the Kentucky Derby series ups the ante this weekend, as the Risen Star Stakes is the first leg of ...

Magnitude's dominating 9 3/4-length victory in the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes would have made him one of the top early choices ...

Ethan West has spent years quietly building his training career, working tirelessly at Turfway Park and throughout racetracks ...

The highs and lows of racing were on full display this week after Magnitude, the dominant 9 3/4-length winner of the Feb. 15 Risen Star Stakes (G2), was declared off the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail with ...