If you add together the purses for the other two KYD preps on Saturday, the Wood Memorial and the SA Derby, you get $1,250.000. That would also be the purse amount for the BG Stakes, by itself. KEE is certainly doing something right by increasing their purses, a stark contrast from SA, who lowered theirs for 2025.

Vinery Madison – Grade I KEE Race #8 7f Dirt Graded StakePurse $650.000 For Fillies And Mares Four Years Old And Upward. 1 Lady Sammyantha The Sidley Stud Lopez P 123 — The BC Fillies and Mares Sprint Champion returns… Read More ›

We’ve reached the final big weekend of prep races for the KYD, as three 100-point races will be held that can shake up the leaderboard as we currently know it. There will then be the “Hail Mary” next weekend in the Lexington, but this weekend will determine a lot. Here, we will head out west to SA, to take a look at the 22nd running of the Grade 1 SA Derby.

Ashland – Grade I [KYO]KEE Race #6 1 1/16m Dirt Graded StakePurse $750.000 For Fillies Three Years Old. 1 Affair D J C Racing Stables Centeno D E 120 — As we get to the latter stages of KYO qualification… Read More ›