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05/01/2015

Kentucky Derby 141 Update - 5/1

OTHER KENTUCKY DERBY NOTES AMERICAN PHAROAH/DORTMUND – Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s colts -- Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah and Kaleem Shah’s Dortmund -- galloped at 5:45 Friday morning, shortly after the track opened for training. Baffert

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04/29/2015

Kentucky Derby Post Position Draw Quotes

Carpe Diem (Post position 2, morning line 8-1)/Materiality (Post position 3, morning line 12-1)/ Stanford (Post position 11, morning line 30-1)/Itsaknockout (Post position 13, morning line 30-1 – Todd Pletcher (trainer) – “In a perfect world, I woul

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04/29/2015

Kentucky Derby & Kentucky Oaks 141 Update - 4/29

KENTUCKY DERBY NOTES AMERICAN PHAROAH/DORTMUND – On “is this an omen front?” there was good news out of Germany’s top soccer league in this week for Kaleem Shah, owner of Dortmund: the club team his horse is named defeated Bayern Munich in an over

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04/28/2015

Kentucky Derby & Kentucky Oaks 141 Update

Also Tuesday morning, 15 fillies were entered for Friday’s 141st running of the $1 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI). Churchill Downs linemaker Mike Battaglia made Stellar Wind the 7-2 morning-line favorite for the 1 1/8-mile test for the 3-year-old f

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04/27/2015

Kentucky Derby & Kentucky Oaks 141 Update

Trained by John Terranova, El Kabeir was making his second trip here, having first made the journey in November to win the Kentucky Jockey Club (GII) under Calvin Borel. Borel, a three-time Kentucky Derby-winning rider, will have the mount Saturday. El Ka

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04/26/2015

Record Single-Day Rainbow 6 Handle Generates Multiple $14,592 Payoffs

Bettors wagered a record $5,672,198 into Saturday's Rainbow 6 with a $1.4 million carryover. The previous record for money wagered into the Rainbow 6 was $3.5 million in 2011 with a $1.4 million carryover. The Rainbow 6 got off to an exciting start with 2

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04/25/2015

Upstart, Frosted Conduct Final Pre-Derby Breezes at Palm Meadows

Lambholm South Holy Bull (G2) winner and Besilu Stables Florida Derby (G1) runner-up Upstart recorded the bullet move of the morning, clocking in at 59.95 seconds for five-furlongs. With exercise rider Vicki King aboard, the son of Flatter galloped about

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04/24/2015

Kentucky Derby & Kentucky Oaks 141 Update

Two days out, the forecast calls for rain to begin late Friday night with the heaviest rain beginning at 6 Saturday morning. “We would most likely stay on for Saturday,” said George Weaver, trainer of Tencendur. “I am bringing Manny Franco in for th

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04/24/2015

Mandatory Rainbow 6 Carryover Payout

Heading into Friday’s nine-race program, the Rainbow 6 had gone unsolved for 26 consecutive racing days, generating a life-changing carryover jackpot of $ 1,357,478. Should the popular multi-race wager stump the bettors again Friday, the total pool that

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04/24/2015

Millions at Stake Saturday for Gulfstream’s Rainbow 6 Mandatory Payout

The Rainbow 6 went unsolved for the 27th consecutive racing day Friday, producing a $1,453,762.30 carryover into Saturday’s program. With so much money added to Saturday’s wagering pool on a mandatory payout day, the pool can be expected to grow to $5

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