Leelanau tracked a fast pace and then accelerated through the stretch to win Monday's $162,600 Kentucky Breeders' Cup Stakes (gr. III) by 4 1/2 lengths in track-record time at Churchill Downs. With the win, Leelanau became the second stakes-winning, track-record setter from Carson City's current crop of 2-year-olds, joining Three Chimneys Juvenile Stakes winner City Street.
Monday, May 28, 2001It is getting to be expected at Churchill Downs on Saturday. Three track records set during the first four races on the Kentuckky Derby card. In fact, in the fourth race, the Three Chimneys Juvenile, two horses set a track record--City Street and Open Story dead-heated.
Saturday, May 05, 2001