Fort Larned Launches Run To Classic With Brilliant Foster
The growth of the Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs has been a wonderful thing to experience since the stature of Churchill Downs’ mid-year race for older horses started to rise in the 1990s.
‘Throwback’ Triple Crown Gives Way To Foster And Future
Another Triple Crown campaign has come and gone and our streak without a horse that could sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes stands at 35 years.
Belmont Could Be ‘Lukas Show’ Even If He Doesn’t Win
No Triple Crown will be at stake when Orb, winner of the 139th Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands, and Oxbow, the front-running victor in the Preakness, meet a close-to-full gate of rivals in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.
Notes While Awaiting Belmont, Stephen Foster
By the time a period is added to the final sentence of this piece and the time it meets your eyes, four major players in the Belmont Stakes will probably have worked at Churchill Downs in preparation for the final jewel of the 2014 Triple Crown.
Ageless D. Wayne Lukas Earns Another Big One
The message should be crystal-clear by now to anyone who has been paying even the slightest bit of attention to goings-on in Thoroughbred racing.
Triple Crown Hopes Build As Orb Takes Next Step
By virtue of living in what is clearly a horse racing town, it’s not exactly a surprise when people want to talk about the new Kentucky Derby winner and their experience at Churchill Downs during Derby Week.
Derby 139 Belongs to Shug McGaughey – And More
As the realization of a lifelong dream unfolded before him on a soggy first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs, Claude Ray “Shug” McGaughey was not watching from a warm and cozy spot on Millionaires Row, over even one of the Churchill Downs boxes in Section 318 where the connections of Kentucky Derby runners spend some of the most anxious two-minute increments of their lives.
Oaks Fillies Deserve Spotlight Of Their Own
Most of the words found in this space in recent months have been devoted to the horses that will likely find their way into the Churchill Downs starting gate to compete in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands on May 4.
Outsiders With A Chance In Derby 139
With just over two weeks remaining until Kentucky Derby 139, the major races on the new “Road to the Kentucky Derby” points system have been run and the prospective field for the great race on May 4 at Churchill Downs is taking shape.
