While the rain and coldest Oaks Day temperatures since 1940 combined to keep some at home, 105,100 fans attended the 143rd running of the Kentucky Oaks (G1) on Friday at Churchill Downs. The record attendance […]
Abel Tasman gained a measure of revenge on Friday when flying past tiring pacesetter Paradise Woods to prevail in the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs. The pair met up in the Santa […]
Mike Smith, Abel Tasman, first “Immediately after her second-place finish in the Santa Anita Oaks (G1), we (Smith and trainer Bob Baffert) both realized she probably needed a slight blinker. She broke OK that day, […]
Bob Baffert, Abel Tasman, first “It’s just exciting to win the Kentucky Oaks. We’d like to have a horse in the Derby but I’m so happy for the China Horse Club. They trusted me with […]
At first expected to venture forth against the boys in Saturday’s American Turf (G2), La Coronel instead stayed within the three-year-old filly turf division in Friday’s $150,000 Edgewood (G3) at Churchill Downs. She’d drawn poorly […]
The last three Kentucky Derby winners have left the starting gate at odds of 5-2 or less but this year’s winner is virtually guaranteed to return a better mutuel with four horses poised to compete […]
Shortleaf Stable’s Benner Island just lasted from the flying Union Strike in Friday’s $200,000 Eight Belles (G2) on Kentucky Oaks Day at Churchill Downs. Although that continued the trend of early speed holding on the […]
The six-year-old Green Mask had credibly taken on some of the best turf sprinters the world had to offer in back-to-back Breeders’ Cups and in such exotic locales as Dubai and Hong Kong, but it […]
Bird Song rode the prevailing speed bias to victory in the $400,000 Alysheba (G2) at Churchill Downs on Friday’s Kentucky Oaks (G1) undercard while providing a fitting tribute to his dam, champion Bird Town, who […]
Maggi Moss’ Big World grabbed command of Friday’s $300,000 La Troienne Stakes (G1) at Churchill Downs and led all the way to the wire to kick off the stakes action on Kentucky Oaks Day 2017. […]
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