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Although Churchill Downs Inc. reports some mixed results for 2025, the live and historic racing segment saw an increase in adjusted profits, including an increase in revenue and adjusted profits for Churchill Downs racing operations. After trading closed on February 25, the Louisville, Kentucky-based company reported its operating results for the fourth quarter of 2025 […]
In recent years, U.S.-based trainers fortunate enough to have multiple Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls might try to chart different paths toward the first Saturday in May, perhaps with one runner coming in on Gulfstream Park and another bee Aqueduct racecourseor one up Santa Anita Park and another bee Oaklawn Park. While these decisions are still […]
The last Saturday in January, originally scheduled for three Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifying points races, will instead feature just one: the January 31 Holy Bull Stakes (G3) on Gulfstream Park. The other two Derby preps are the $1 million Southwest Stakes (G3). Oaklawn Park and the $200,000 Withers Stakes Aqueduct racecoursewill not take place this […]
A Mott-trained colt starting the Kentucky Derby (G1) course is hardly news. But the Holy Bull Stakes (G3) January 31 at Gulfstream Park creates a wrinkle because it doesn’t include a starter for coach Bill Mott, but his son, Riley Mott. One season after Hall of Famer Bill won the Derby and Belmont Stakes (G1) […]
The 2025 season did not go so smoothly for Horse of the Year 2024 Thorpedo Anna but when she was pushed to her limits in the Personal Ensign Stakes (G1), fans saw the champion’s heart once again. Appropriately enough, that win likely clinched a second straight Eclipse Award season for Thorpedo Anna, as she takes […]
Keeneland on January 2 announced three horses in the third round of supplements for the January sale of horses of all ages January 12-13: Serve a 4 year old filly from Prince of Cairo where he was an impressive debut winner Churchill Downs at 2 before finishing second in the 2024 Schuylerville Stakes and […]
Class 1 winner Luscious lips returns in the $300,000 Mrs. Revere Stakes (G2T) op Churchill Downs November 28 against a talented group of 3-year-old fillies. The 1 1/16-mile race is one of two mixed-stakes races on Friday’s card, along with the $600,000 Clark Stakes (G2). Lush Lips will race in the colors of William Shively’s […]
Breakway Farm announced this on November 20 She a multiple stakes winner and the winning horse in Churchill Downs history, will be on the Indiana farm in 2026 at a cost of $2,500. The 8-year-old son of Congrats retired in early November after a career that included 12 victories at the historic oval in Louisville, […]
Churchill Downs has been the center of Louisville, Ky., since 1875, but no horse has ever finished first more times than She . Age finally caught up with the 8 year old son of Congratulations and he was officially retired after finishing last of seven in an optional claims race on November 6. That performance, […]
It has been 23 years since the Claiming Crown was held in Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Park, later renamed Parx Racing. Still, the outcome of the Claiming Crown main event on November 15 is up Churchill Downs had a Keystone State feel. Trainer Ben Dunn and jockey Melvis Gonzalez, both based at Parx, teamed up to […]
