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By Keith Pettyjohn — This year’s Kentucky Oaks is shaping up to showcase one of the best fields we’ve seen in many years. If it
By Keith Pettyjohn — Will the real Serengeti Empress please stand up? Back when I was a child, we would gather together in the evenings
By Jennie Rees – Reeve McGaughey earned his first training victory in his home state Saturday as 12-1 shot Nathan Detroit won his debut in
It’s a familiar refrain these days but there are too many races and so little time to devote to all of them. With the racing
When I first read the headline “Oaklawn to Reopen Casino on Monday, May 18,” I was horrified. Readers might recall that we were all over
By Michael Antoniades — If you are a fan of horse racing, the earth moved on Saturday. There are no sports to watch or wager
By Churchill Downs Press Staff – Churchill Downs Racetrack released its first condition book of races for the 2020 Spring Meet late Sunday, and horsemen
Now I know: Nadal is a more impressive individual than Charlatan. At least on the afternoon of May 2 and after sleeping on it. This
If you know and believe the answer to that question, I’ve got a Pick 3 for you, and the first the line of a few
So we gathered up our Past Performances, Trip Notes and Thoro-Graph figures in an attempt to pass time making a few dollars. Why not, is
Whatever your initial reaction, don’t confuse the headline with hyperbole. Not when 10 of the 14 entrants are stakes winners, six of the graded stakes
As racing anticipates what will be the significant event of the 2020 Triple Crown season, featuring the NTRA’s third and fourth ranked three-year-olds, racetracks should
By Jennifer Hoyt for Oaklawn Park – In a move believed to be unprecedented in American racing history, Oaklawn will split the 84th running of the
You’ve got to start somewhere—and therein lies the rub. There are two listed stakes Saturday at Oaklawn Park. Two of the eight starters in the
We’re letting the weather handicappers point me in the direction I prefer to go. Every map I looked at promised rain in South and North
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