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Takaya Shimakawa’s Si Que Es Buena remained unbeaten over Gulfstrem Park’s turf course after winning Saturday’s $200,000 La Prevoyante (G3). It was the Argentinean-bred’s second consecutive stakes victory at Gulfstream Park, following her win in the Via Borghese Stakes in December. Ridden by Chris Landeros, Si Que Es Buena was a one-length winner over the […]

Trinity Farm’s Red Knight made a five-wide swoop to the lead entering the homestretch and held off favorite Soglio by a head in Saturday’s $100,000 H. Allen Jerkens at Gulfstream Park. The two-mile stakes honoring the memory of the legendary Hall of Fame trainer headlined six turf stakes on Saturday’s 11-race program. Trained by fellow […]

Gulfstream Park opened its 2018-2019 Championship Meet with a record handle on the 20th edition of the Claiming Crown. Total handle on the 11-race program was $13.612 million, smashing the previous Claiming Crown record set last year of $11.925 million, or 14 percent. Handle on the Claiming Crown has grown every year since Gulfstream starting […]

Jockey Chris Landeros will be off to a busy start at his second straight Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park, with mounts in seven of Saturday’s 11 races including five of the nine Claiming Crown stakes as he seeks to improve on his 2017-18 numbers. In his first full winter at Gulfstream, riding primarily for his […]

A highly-contentious field of 10 filly and mare turf specialists are set for Thursday’s 45th renewal of the $100,000 Cardinal Handicap (Grade III) – a 1 1/8-mile test over the grass at Churchill Downs. The co-feature on the 12-race Thanksgiving Day card, along with the $200,000 Falls City Handicap (GIII), is slated as Race 9 […]

Calumet Farm’s Vexatious, who finished a neck behind Beach Flower, was elevated to first place on the disqualification of Beach Flower for interference in the stretch to win the 27th running of the $125,000 Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3) for fillies and mares before a Sunday afternoon crowd of 13,836 at Keeneland. Trained by Neil […]

Saturday’s $100,000 Ack Ack Presented by GE Appliances (Grade III) will mark the third time that jockey Chris Landeros has sat aboard multiple-stakes winner Warrior’s Club, and the 30-year-old journeyman rider hopes to celebrate with the Churchill Downs Racing Club’s 200 members in the winner’s circle. “It’s such a cool story with this horse,” Landeros […]

In the wake of the 2008 stock market crash, Lindsay Bohannon found himself the sole owner in a filly named Archly, his partners wanting out. Because Archly was by Arch, whose son Blame had just handed the great racemare Zenyatta her only defeat in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs, Bohannon decided to […]

John Ennis’ Weiland outgamed Myhotrodlincoln by a head to win the 25th running of the $100,000 Kentucky Juvenile for 2-year-olds before a record Thurby crowd of 48,134. Trained by Ennis and ridden by Carlos Villasana, Weiland covered five furlongs on a fast main track in :59.32. It was the first career stakes win for Ennis. The victory was worth $60,760 and increased […]

Rodney Paden’s One Go All Go took the lead out of the gate in Saturday’s Grade 2 Dixiana Elkhorn Stakes, and refused to relinquish it all the way down the lane to win by about a half-length over Oscar Nominated and Itsinthepost. The 6-year-old son of Fairbanks, ridden by Chris Landeros for trainer Scooter Dickey, […]