On Saturday, as the sun begins to set behind the rolling hills in Kentucky, glasses of mint juleps will be raised across the country to the traditional singing of "My Old Kentucky Home" for the running of the 145th Kentucky Derby.
Sophie Doyle doesn't get opportunities to ride the top horses, part of which she says is because she's a female jockey.
Chester Thomas came bounding down the stands and through the crowd, yelling at the top of his lungs.
Trainer Mark Casse was effusive with praise after War of Will won the Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 16 at the Fair Grounds.
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Last year, Chocolate Martini had a surprisingly strong performance in giving trainer Tom Amoss his first Fair Grounds Oaks victory and a trip to the prestigious Kentucky Oaks in May.
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On Feb. 16 at the Fair Grounds, 5-year-old gelding Silver Dust ran the best race of his career in winning the Grade 3 Mineshaft Stakes.
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Trainer Tom Amoss would have understood if Gayle Benson, just weeks after burying her husband of 14 years last spring, had wanted to skip the walk from the barn to the paddock with Lone Sailor, the thoroughbred they were racing in the Kentucky Derby.
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Trainer Mark Casse said he was disappointed when War of Will finished second in the Grade I Summer Stakes, his second outing, at Woobine in Canada on Sept. 16.
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Winning the Silverbulletday Stakes on Jan. 19 was special for trainer Jeremiah O'Dwyer and Needs Supervision.
Lone Sailor had a good, if not impressive 3-year-old racing season.
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Needs Supervision had won her previous two races coming into Saturday's Silverbulletday Stakes at the Fair Grounds.
Noted trainer Mark Casse's brother, John, bought War of Will in France in March for $300,000. So impressed was Casse when he first saw War of Will, he used to take people to the barn and show him off.
Plus Que Parfait finished second by a neck in the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Trainer Wayne Catalano has been here before, entering the Silverbulletday Stakes with a special horse, that being Farrell in 2017.
Great Wide Open had a difficult start to 2018. However, it ended much better, and trainer Conor Murphy hopes that continues Saturday in the 33rd Colonel E.R. Bradley Stakes at the Fair Grounds.
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Michael Beychok, the 2012 National Handicapping Championship and 2012 Eclipse Award winner for best handicapper, brings 35 years of experience to The Advocate. Beychok is also the senior partner of Ourso Beychok Inc., an award winning national pol…
Michael Beychok, the 2012 National Handicapping Championship and 2012 Eclipse Award winner for best handicapper, brings 35 years of experience to The Advocate. Beychok is also the senior partner of Ourso Beychok Inc., an award winning national pol…
For most of the Louisiana Champions Day Turf Stakes, Magic Vow, a 4-year-old gelding, was no where to be seen.
It was a dreary, rainy day, and the Fair Grounds' track was sloppy for Saturday's Louisiana Champions Day races.
Kendel Standlee and Scott Gelner, owner and trainer of In the Navy, had been patient with the colt, watching him fall short of winning race after race.
Michael Beychok, the 2012 National Handicapping Championship and 2012 Eclipse Award winner for best handicapper, brings 35 years of experience to The Advocate. Beychok is also the senior partner of Ourso Beychok Inc., an award winning national pol…
Three other fillies have better odds than Pacific Pink to win the $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Ladies Stakes on Saturday.
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