Molly Morgan

Jockey Corey Lanerie to Retire Following Churchill Downs Spring Meet

Jockey Corey Lanerie will call it a career at the conclusion of the Churchill Downs spring meet Sunday, June 28 following 35 years in the saddle, the track announced Friday. Lanerie will leave the sport having totaled more than 5,000 victories and earning north of $172-million in prize money with at least 1,244 wins at Churchill alone. The mark ties him in second all-time behind Hall of Famer Pat Day, who claims 2,482 trips to the winner's enclosure in the shadow of the Twin Spires. The Louisiana native began his...

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Monday Insights: Maiden Colts Headline Rescheduled Ellis Card

6th-ELP, $70K, Msw, 2yo, 1m, 3:18 p.m. A trio of colts make their much-anticipated debuts Monday beginning with Stonestreet homebred BENVOLIO (Tapit). Out of GI La Troienne S. winner Molly Morgan (Ghostzapper) who was purchased by Stonestreet for $1.35m out of the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed Sale, the bay is a half to $1.8m yearling Vintage Print (Curlin). He'll face a pair of expensive yearlings including a stablemate in Army Officer (Not This Time), picked up for $475,000 out of last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Sale by Qatar Racing....

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Sunday's Insights: Pletcher Sends out Firster Full to Grade I winner Molly Morgan

Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 2nd-Gulfstream Park, $50K, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:05 p.m. Todd Pletcher saddles first-time starter MAGGIE FITZ (Ghostzapper), a full-sister to Grade I winner Molly Morgan. A $335,000 Keeneland November weanling purchase in 2017, the bay filly was consigned by Woods Edge Farm at the 2018 Keeneland September sale where Stonestreet Stables signed the ticket at $1.025 million. She was entered and withdrawn from three juvenile sales last spring and debuts here in the Woods Edge Farm colors. TJCIS PPs 5th-Gulfstream Park, $50k, Msw, 3yo, f,...

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