Home sweet home. That’s what it might have felt like for Mystik Dan as his return to Churchill Downs May 31 was triumphant in the $270,000 Blame Stakes (G3). The path to victory Saturday proved visually similar to the one the son of Goldencents and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. rode 13 months prior to wear…
Closing from last under Florent Geroux, Fionn caught midstretch leader Totally Justified and scored by a half-length in the $272,500 Regret Stakes (G3T) May 31 at Churchill Downs. The 3-year-old daughter of Twirling Candy notched her second stakes victory and first at the graded level in taking the 1 1/8-mile turf contest. In March she…
Mystik Dan co-owner Lance Gasaway shares his thoughts on Mystik Dan’s victory in the Blame Stakes (G3). Source link
Many racing highlights for owner/breeder Carl Pollard have come at Churchill Downs, among them Caressing’s victory in the 2000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) and My Trusty Cat’s triumph in the 2005 Humana Distaff Handicap (G1). Now, Pollard has another graded victory beneath the twin spires, thanks to Mercante , who wore down favored Brilliant Berti to…
Wearing down stretch leader King of Ashes in the closing strides by a neck, World Beater notched his first career stakes victory in the $273,500 Audubon Stakes May 31 at Churchill Downs. The victory was the second in a row for the 3-year-old son of Oscar Performance , who a start earlier had broken his maiden in…
Jose Ortiz holds the reputation of one of the United States’ top riders, and he put those talents on full display May 31 when guiding Durante to a 33-1 upset in the $275,000 Aristides Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs. “It was one of the best rides I’ve seen in a long, long time. I’ve been…
Jockey Jose Ortiz describes his winning ride on Durante in the May 31 Aristides Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs. Source link
While the racing world crosses its fingers and hopes there will be a rematch between Sovereignty and Journalism in the Belmont Stakes (G1), it would be quite a mistake to sleep on Baeza . Sovereignty, who won the Kentucky Derby (G1) and skipped the Preakness Stakes (G1), and Journalism, who was second in the Run for…
“One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up.” —Jean-Paul Sartre Christophe Clement was in rare form on the evening of June 7, 2014, as twilight dissolved on the Belmont Park backstretch and a few reporters straggled over to the…
R. Larry Johnson died in February, but his legacy as an owner and breeder continues, spotlighted by his homebred turf sprinter Future Is Now . She won the Giant’s Causeway Stakes (G3T) April 13 at Keeneland, and now she travels to Saratoga Race Course, where she leads the $200,000 Intercontinental Stakes (G2T) June 5 during the Belmont…
