Coal Battle was 11-1, which was about right considering the price tag and breeding of most of the field in the Rebel Stakes, ...

The bargain-buy $70,000 colt trained by Louisiana horseman Lonnie Briley posted a $25.80 win in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes, and ...

Norman Stables’ Coal Battle won his third straight scoring race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby in Sunday’s $1.25 million ...

Triumphing for a third time on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, Coal Battle proved he's more than just a feel-good story in ...

Madaket Road will ship back to California for Baffert, with future plans undetermined. “I told [jockey Irad Ortiz] to just ...

Let’s hear it for 72-year-old trainer Lonnie Briley, the ‘Rebel Rouser’ on the Road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) for the first time with his little bay colt Coal Battle. Sweeping past the field ...

The Smarty Jones winner had shipped to trainer Lonnie Briley's string at Delta Downs to escape bad weather in Hot Springs ...

The only rule is that there are no rules. Some of our most expensive freshmen are entering precisely the end game that drove their purchase: Arabian Knight (Uncle Mo) and Muth (Good Magic) cost $2.3 ...

For the fourth time in a row, and continuing down the Road to the Kentucky Derby with 50 more points, Coal Battle (Coal Front) pulled out a win, this time in the GII Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park. Havi ...

Oaklawn stakes winners Speed King and Coal Battle are among 39 individual betting choices in the fourth national Kentucky ...