November 21, 2012 - 11:00am
Black Friday isn’t just for shopping.
Churchill Downs will host its only fall meet grade one event this Friday when a field of ten contest the $400,000 Clark Handicap at 1 1/8 miles over the dirt.Headlining the field with the top weight of 120 pounds is Dale Romans’ Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford. The four-year-old son of...
November 12, 2012 - 10:15am
Fans lined the paddock rails as Breeders' Cup champs were paraded inside.
Fans lined the paddock rails as some of the Kentucky-based Breeders' Cup champs paraded the paddock Sunday afternoon. Trainer Charlie Lopresti and Wise Dan, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile, trainer Ian Wilkes, jockey Brian Hernandez, Jr., breeder Janis Whitham and Fort Larned, winner of...
November 8, 2012 - 5:02pm
Dale Romans trainee, seventh in Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, could run in Clark or Cigar Mile
Shackleford’s seventh-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile won’t likely be his racing finale.Trainer Dale Romans said the 4-year-old chestnut son of Forestry will return to Churchill Downs next week and will have one more race before retiring to stud at Darby Dan Farm.The...
November 12, 2012 - 4:55pm
Sunday is your chance to see some of the Breeders’ Cup winners and their Kentucky connections.
You can take the Breeders’ Cup out of Kentucky where it’s been held the past two years, but you can’t take Kentucky out of the Breeders’ Cup, which was held this year at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Kentucky connections had a big day Breeders’ Cup Saturday...
November 12, 2012 - 4:55pm
Kentucky stole the spotlight in California at the 2012 Breeders’ Cup.
The Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which has been held at Louisville’s Churchill Downs the past two years, may have left the Derby City, but the Derby City was sure to follow it to Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Kentucky connections had a banner day at Saturday’s...
