The Road to the Kentucky Derby heats up this Saturday in the “Big Easy” with the $400,000, Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes, a key prep race for the run for the roses and a local steppingstone to the $1 million Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds on March 23.
In his first start as a 3-year-old and first effort in a race not contested on turf, Endlessly proved up to the challenge in the $100,000 El Camino Real Derby Feb. 10 at Golden Gate Fields.
With 18 races having been run so far on the 2023-2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve, the Grade 3, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs is the halfway mark as we move toward the first Saturday in May.