Kentucky Derby News
July 1, 2011
Churchill Downs Wraps Meet with 'Red, White and Blues Weekend'
Churchill Downs will end its 2011 Spring Meet with a bang. The spring finale of “Downs After Dark” Presented by Budweiser Select is Friday (tonight) at 5 p.m. EDT (one-hour earlier than previously scheduled) and the 13-race card is billed...
June 30, 2011
CHURCHILL DOWNS TO CONDUCT NIGHT RACING ON JUNE 24
Churchill Downs Racetrack will conduct its scheduled Downs After Dark night racing program on Friday, June 24. Track officials made the decision to resume live racing tomorrow after surveying damage to a number of barns and other structures in the Churchill...
June 30, 2011
Sum Of The Parts Among 11 in 110th Running of Grade III Bashford Manor
Klaravich Stables Inc and William H Lawrence’s Sum of the Parts, an impressive son of Speightstown who was a convincing winner in his lone career start, heads a field of 11 2-year-olds entered to compete in Saturday’s 110th running of...
June 30, 2011
Howard Bids for Second Bashford Manor With Power World
HOWARD LOOKS FOR SECOND BASHFORD MANOR WITH POWER WORLD -- With 283 career wins beneath the Twin Spires, trainer Neil Howard is no stranger to the Churchill Downs winner’s circle. One of his most important early wins came in the 1989...
June 30, 2011
Elusive Jozi Flies Late to Take Thursday Feature
David Garner’s homebred Elusive Jozi charged down the stretch of the Matt Winn Turf Course, caught early-pacesetter Scintillation inside the sixteenth-pole and beat Costly to the wire to win the $64,155 Thursday afternoon feature for fillies and...
June 28, 2011
'Downs After Dark' Post Time Moved Up to 5 P.M.; All-White Attire Encouraged for 'White Party'
The first race for Friday’s “Downs After Dark” nighttime racing celebration at Churchill Downs has been moved up one hour to 5 p.m. (all times EDT) because it is now a special 13-race program. Two “make-up” races originally...
June 28, 2011
Wise Dan Sharp In First Turf Work; General Quarters Works Easy Half-Mile
FIRECRACKER HOPE WISE DAN SHARP IN FIRST GRASS WORK– Trainer Charles Lopresti made the trip west on Interstate 64 from his Lexington base Tuesday morning with Morton Fink’s homebred Wise Dan Tuesday morning to give the 4-year-old son of Wiseman’s...
June 26, 2011
Get Stormy 123-pound Firecracker Hight Weight, Simms Contemplates Breeders' Cup for Flashy Lassie
GET STORMY ASSIGNED HIGH WEIGHT FOR FIRECRACKER HANDICAP – Dual Grade I winner Get Stormy has been assigned the high weight of 123 pounds by Churchill Downs racing secretary Ben Huffman for the 21st running of the $175,000-added Firecracker...
June 26, 2011
Persuading Takes Sunday Feature; Ready's Rocket Wins No. 10
James Lauffer and Poplar Hill Equine’s Persuading challenged for the lead at the quarter-pole, battled with Hidden Value down the Churchill Downs stretch and edged clear inside the sixteenth pole to win the $66,836 Sunday feature beneath the Twin...
June 25, 2011
Here Comes Ben Scores Kelly's Landing Repeat Before 25,523 'Downs After Dark' Fans
Marianne and Brandon Chase’s homebred Here Comes Ben powered down the historic Churchill Downs stretch Friday night to score a repeat victory in $76,445 Kelly’s Landing overnight stakes by 3 ¼ lengths before a “Downs After Dark”...
