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Friday’s Kentucky Oaks card at Churchill Downs attracted a record 123,763 fans, besting the previous Oaks-day record crowd of 116,046 set in 2010. Wagering from all-sources was the highest all-time on both the full 12-race Kentucky Oaks Day card and on the Oaks itself, according to figures released by Churchill Friday night. All-sources handle on...
The Wesley Ward owned and trained Judy the Beauty (Ghostzapper) makes her first start since securing champion female sprinter honors in the Nov. 1 GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Sprint in Churchill’s GI Humana Distaff S. Saturday. A winner of Santa Anita’s GIII Las Flores S. and Keeneland’s GI Madison S. to kick off 2014, the chestnut finished...
Five races before the field goes to post for the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs will play host to a full field of 14 sophomore colts and geldings in the GII American Turf S. over 1 1/16 miles on the grass. Ramsey Farm homebred Luck of the Kitten (Kitten’s Joy) has been installed as the lukewarm 7-2 favorite...
by T.D. Thornton A day after bipartisan legislation was filed on Thursday to repeal the Interstate Horse Racing Act of 1978 as a cudgel to “clean up the sport,” industry leaders reacted with shock that the drastic bill was filed, and essentially decried the measure as an attention-getting threat akin to cutting off an arm...
Magdalen O. Bryant’s GI Travers S. winner V.E. Day (English Channel) gets back on the grass for this seasonal debut in Belmont’s 1 1/8-mile GIII Fort Marcy S. After graduating in a sloppy off-the-turfer at Belmont last May, he won an allowance over this course and distance July 2 and returned three weeks later to upend the...
If there is an owner in the Thoroughbred business who is ‘owed’ a Classic victory, it just might be Ahmed Zayat. Since entering the game a decade ago, the successful businessman has amassed an impressive–and indeed–improbable record in the American Classics, with no fewer than three runner-up finishes in the GI Kentucky Derby, another in...
Before leading GI Kentucky Derby candidates Todd Pletcher and Bob Baffert saddle their respective charges in the “Run for the Roses,” they’ll go head-to-head in the GIII Pat Day Mile, formerly the GIII Derby Trial S. when it was run a week earlier. Pletcher-trained ‘TDN Rising Star’ Competitive Edge (Super Saver)looks to keep his unbeaten record intact...
With the absence of two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan (Wiseman’s Ferry), who won the GI Woodford Reserve Turf Classic in both 2013 and 2014, the morning-line nod in this year’s renewal of the 1 1/8-mile test goes to last year’s runner-up Seek Again (Speightstown). Missing by a just head in last year’s Turf Classic, the...
Kaleem Shah’s Bayern (Offlee Wild) adds to the GI Kentucky Derby day hype by making his highly anticipated 4-year-old debut in the seven-furlong GII Churchill Downs S. The Bob Baffert pupil ran the field off their feet with a dazzling 7 1/2-length romp in the GII Woody Stephens S. June 7, and put all distance questions to...
There is no let-up in the European breeze-up season at the moment, with Tattersalls’ Guineas Breeze-up following hard on the heels of the Tuesday’s sale at Osarus and bringing a top price of 230,000gns for a colt by Exchange Rate (lot 284). Jim McCartan’s Gaybrook Lodge Stud has now offered the top lot at this...
Amerman Racing Stables’s Coffee Clique (Medaglia d’Oro) looks to successfully defend her title in the GII Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Saturday. A perfect three-for-three last season, the Brian Lynch trainee kicked off that term with a one-mile optional claimer victory on the Gulfstream lawn last March. Following suit with a win in last year’s renewal of this...
With Palace Malice (Curlin) defecting with a foot bruise, Shel Evans’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Tonalist (Tapit) looms an imposing presence in Saturday’s GIII Westchester S. The bay sports a three-for-three record at Big Sandy, having romped in the GII Peter Pan S. some 51 weeks ago before posting the mild upset in the GI Belmont S. Second in the...