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Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, is in serious condition while recovering from surgery related to complications involving the birth of her filly.CJ.com
Wearing the angst-ridden look usually reserved for hospital waiting rooms, Stonestreet Farm owner Barbara Banke and the attending veterinarians at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital detailed the serious fight Rachel Alexandra has ahead of her as the...
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Magna Fortuna, the 3-year-old colt who is the subject of a Courier-Journal blog, makes his second career start Friday in the fifth race on Hawthorne Race Course's opening-day card.CJ.com
Churchill Downs has changed the method in which horses earn their way into the Kentucky Derby if more than 20 are entered for next May 4's race, abandoning preference based on graded-stakes earnings in favor of a tiered points system based on 36 races.CJ.com
Dice Flavor, making his first stakes appearance, came from well off the pace to win Saturday's $200,000, GradeIII El Camino Real Derby by 33/4 lengths over Nina's Dragon at Golden Gate Fields.CJ.com
Monday's Southwest, impressively won by Super Ninety Nine, was the last stakes in what Churchill Downs' calls the Kentucky Derby Prep Season, where the top four finishers get points toward Derby qualifying on a 10-4-2-1 scale.CJ.com
Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens came out of retirement this year knowing he would have to schedule his responsibilities as a TV analyst around his opportunities to ride. If Proud Strike runs well under Stevens in Saturday's Risen Star Stakes, Stevens might have a contender for the Kentucky Derby strong enough to convince him to set aside his ..
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Russdiculous is transferring! Hold your horses, panicky CardNation. We're talking about the 3-year-old colt, not the UofL guard who sometimes drives coach Rick Pitino crazy.CJ.com
Trainer Todd Pletcher unleashes two more talented members of his crop of Kentucky Derby contenders when Violence runs in the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream and Palace Malice goes in the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds on Saturday.
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Violence, the top-ranked horse in The Courier-Journal’s Kentucky Derby poll, is off the Triple Crown campaign after sustaining a fractured sesamoid in his right front ankle after finishing second in Saturday’s $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla..CJ.com
Legendary stallion Storm Cat enjoyed a 30th birthday celebration at Overbrook Farm on Wednesday, joined by his former trainer and exercise rider Jonathan and Cathy Sheppard.
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Matt Bryan grabbed a program to double-check the numbers before Saturday's $400,000 Risen Star Stakes at the Fair Grounds. He thought his horse was the No.8 but couldn't believe that Ive Struck a Nerve was 99-1 on the tote board.CJ.com
Gotham Stakes favorite Overanalyze makes his first start on Saturday since winning the Nov. 24 Remsen at 1-1/8 miles, earning a 104 BRIS speed figure that easily heads this field. CJ.com
Rudy Rodriguez has gotten a taste of the Kentucky Derby as an exercise rider and a spectator. This year, he might be at Churchill Downs on May 4 as the trainer of a Derby contender.CJ.com
The second of three betting pools in the Churchill Downs Kentucky Derby Future Wager concluded Sunday with few surprises, when wagering closed with a strong favorite in the 'All Others' betting interest as the strong 3-1 favorite.CJ.com
Uncaptured, who swept Churchill Downs’ Iroquois and Kentucky Jockey Club last fall, worked so well Tuesday morning in Ocala, Fla., that trainer Mark Casse has upgraded his sights for the colt’s 3-year-old debut: Instead of easing into competition in Turfway Park’s $75,000 Rushaway Stakes at 1-1/16 miles.
Uncaptured, who swept Churchill Downs’ Iroquois and Kentucky Jockey Club last fall, worked so well Tuesday morning in Ocala, Fla., that trainer Mark Casse has upgraded his sights for the colt’s 3-year-old debut: Instead of easing into competition in Turfway Park’s $75,000 Rushaway Stakes at 1-1/16 miles.CJ.com