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| Date | Race | Purse | Age/Sex | Dist | |
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| April 25 | William Walker | $100,000g | 3yo, | 6f |
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| Date | Race | Purse | Age/Sex | Dist | |
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| May 1 | Alysheba S | $400,000g | 4&up, | 8.5f | |
| May 1 | Edgewood S | $150,000g | 3yo, f | 8.5f T | |
| May 1 | Eight Belles S | $200,000g | 3yo, f | 7f | |
| May 1 | Longines Kentucky Oaks | $1,000,000g | 3yo, f | 9f | |
| May 1 | La Troienne S | $300,000g | 4&up, f/m | 8.5f | |
| May 1 | Twin Spires Turf Sprint | $150,000g | 4&up, | 5f T | |
| May 2 | American Turf | $250,000g | 3yo, | 8.5f T | |
| May 2 | Churchill Distaff Turf Mile | $300,000g | 4&up, f/m | 8f T | |
| May 2 | Churchill Downs | $500,000g | 4&up, | 7f | |
| May 2 | Pat Day Mile S | $200,000g | 3yo, | 8f | |
| May 2 | Humana Distaff | $300,000g | 4&up, f/m | 7f | |
| May 2 | Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands | $2,000,000g | 3yo, | 10f | |
| May 2 | Woodford Reserve Turf Classic S | $500,000g | 4&up, | 9f T | |
| May 23 | Louisville H | $100,000g | 3&up, | 12f T | |
| May 25 | Winning Colors S | $100,000g | 3&up, f/m | 6f | |
| May 30 | Aristides | $100,000g | 3&up, | 6f |
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| Date | Race | Purse | Age/Sex | Dist | |
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| June 6 | Old Forester Mint Julep | $100,000g | 3&up, f/m | 8.5f T | |
| June 13 | Fleur de Lis H | $200,000g | 3&up, f/m | 9f | |
| June 13 | Matt Winn S | $100,000g | 3yo, | 8.5f | |
| June 13 | Regret S | $100,000g | 3yo, f | 9f T | |
| June 13 | Stephen Foster H | $500,000g | 3&up, | 9f | |
| June 27 | Bashford Manor S | $100,000g | 2yo, | 6f | |
| June 27 | Debutante S | $100,000g | 2yo, f | 6f | |
| June 27 | Firecracker S | $200,000g | 3&up, | 8f T |
Churchill Downs Inc. officials said Thursday, Feb. 26, they aim to build on last year's highly profitable Kentucky Derby week but acknowledged they see little opportunity for racing growth outside of that week.
Crediting its racing, casino, and online businesses, Churchill Downs Inc. enjoyed record revenues in 2014, while also finishing the year with record revenues in the fourth quarter.
Streaking champion 2-year-old filly Take Charge Brandi is a narrow choice as the favored individual horse, but the ever-popular mutuel field is the morning-line favorite in Kentucky Oaks Future Wager odds.
The early nomination deadline for the 141st running of the $1 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) at Churchill Downs is Saturday, Feb. 21, at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Churchill Downs Racetrack and its charitable beneficiaries Bright Pink and Horses and Hope announced nominations and voting have begun for breast and ovarian cancer survivors to walk in the Kentucky Oaks Survivors Parade.
A winter storm has led Oaklawn Park to cancel its Feb. 16 Presidents' Day card that included the $300,000 Southwest Stakes (gr. III).
The former Derby Trial (gr. III), a one-mile race for 3-year-olds generally run on opening day of the spring meet at Churchill Downs, has been moved to the first Saturday in May and renamed the Pat Day Mile.
G.H. Mumm has been named the "Official Champagne of the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs Racetrack" under a three-year partnership.
Officials are crediting a collaborative effort after Kentucky delivered its safest year on record in 2014 in terms of both number of equine breakdowns in races and rate of equine breakdowns.
The deadline for owners and trainers of promising 3-year-old Thoroughbreds to make their horses eligible for the 2015 Triple Crown races is approaching quickly.
Barbara Livingston has won an unprecedented third Eclipse Award for photography for her photograph of Tapiture working out in a driving rainstorm at Churchill Downs in preparation for the Kentucky Derby.
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas said the game plan at this time for Take Charge Brandi, leading contender for champion 2-year-old filly honors, includes the Longines Kentucky Oaks and none of the Triple Crown preps.
Travis Stone, race caller at Monmouth Park in 2014, has been named the new track announcer at Churchill Downs and will be the voice of the world-famous Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).
Ed Musselman's litigation against Churchill Downs Inc. involving backstretch access has come to an end after the Indian Charlie publisher and the track owner on Dec. 16 jointly agreed to a voluntary dismissal.
New York state, in its greatest expansion of gambling, has selected three winning bidders to operate full commercial casinos in separate areas of the state but rejected proposals by Genting Americas and Churchill Downs, Inc.
Parent company Churchill Downs Inc., preparing to redevelop parts of Calder Race Course, has started on the backside by putting up a wire fence. Trainers are saying the fence is a safety hazard and hinders access to barns.
As expected, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and other involved parties will appeal a Franklin Circuit Court's decision last month to order the reinstatement, with back pay, of former chief state steward John Veitch.
The state cabinet that oversees the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission likely will appeal a circuit court judge's ruling that former Kentucky chief steward John Veitch was improperly dismissed in November 2011.
Churchill Downs wrapped up 2014 with a double-digit decline in all-sources wagering during the 24-day fall meet that concluded Nov. 30.
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