#Keeneland Race

I led last week's column with this, but … "There seems to be more distractions than ever before for gamblers' attention with MLB starting to join NBA and NHL on the daily calendar" … and now we have football, too, with the second coming of the USFL. But, hey, there's always time to slip in some horse racing plays on our busy Saturdays. Last…

The undefeated Flightline can cement his legacy as one of the top horses in decades when he leaves the starting gate in the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course. A perfect 5-for-5 in his career, Flightline has won his starts by a combined 62 ¾ lengths, an average winning margin of 12 ½ lengths. The 126 Beyer Speed Figure…

World-class Thoroughbred racing returns to Keeneland on Friday, April 6, for 15 days of racing that includes the April 14, $750000 Toyota Blue Grass (G1), a springboard to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1), and special events for some of the largest crowds in all of horse racing. On opening day, Keeneland will become the first track…

The richest two days in horse racing take place Friday and Saturday, November 4-5, with the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. Saturday's $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday is the highlight of the 14 races totaling $31 million in prize money. The field features 80-1 longshot…

The Breeders' Cup is the annual horse racing event that follows the Triple Crown races on the schedule. Beginning in 2007, the Breeders' Cup was changed into a two-day event. In the history of the event, the Breeders' Cup has always taken place in the United States. This year's installment will take place at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington,…

No matter how big the hype, no matter how high the expectations, Flightline exceeded every marker in his historic win Saturday in the $6-million Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland Race Course. Did he cement his place in horse racing history with his 8¼-length win in the country's most prestigious race? The 45973 in attendance appeared to think so…

Cody's Wish following his magical Breeders' Cup triumph (Courtney Snow/Past The Wire) By Lucas Sigurdson As we wrap up the season and look forward to next year, I can't help but think: 2022 has been the year of the feel-good story in thoroughbred racing. There have been many exciting moments, inspiring viewers everywhere. Lots of folks - whether…

In the crazy business model of thoroughbred racing, a horse is more valuable not racing then they are on the track. So, with that in mind, the sport's latest superstar, Flightline, was retired on Sunday, one day after a dominating record-setting win the Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland Race Course. It was expected that Flightline would never race…

The Chad Brown-trained Shantisara begins what her trainer hopes will be an Eclipse Award-winning season when she leaves the starting gate in the 2022 Jenny Wiley Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. A winner of five races in nine career starts, Shantisara makes the first start of her 4-year-old year. Brown says she's…

The 2022 Breeders' Cup World Championships broke betting records. The two-day event with 14 Breeders' Cup races started with Future Stars Friday and finished with a flurry when the world's No. 1 racehorse Flightline captured the Classic in record-setting style with an 8-length victory. The beautiful horses are the main attraction at the Breeders'…

Authentic is one step closer to the Kentucky Derby with a tight victory at the 2020 Haskell Invitational on Saturday at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. The Bob Baffert-trained colt entered as the favorite in the seven-horse field at -120 (bet $120 to win $100), with Dr Post (+185) and Ny Traffic (+700) serving as the biggest challengers to…

The annual Racing Kreskin predictions are in the books for 2022. After batting.300 in 2021, the Racing Kreskin was looking to best last year's record. He showed some early season success before riding into the sunset after the recently completed Breeders' Cup at Keeneland Race Course. His New Year's Day selections from well before the racing season…

Churchill Downs' Barn Notes: 148th Running of Clark'Cap Commemorates Exterminator's Win From the Churchill Downs Media Team: 148 RUNNING OF CLARK MARKS 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF EXTERMINATOR'S HISTORIC VICTORY It's been 100 years since Willis Kilmer's famed Exterminator rallied to a 1 ½-length victory in the 1922 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs. At…

Flightline, victor of the 2022 Breeders' Cup World Championships. Photo by Susie Raisher, courtesy of NYRA. The 2022 Breeders' Cup World Championships delivered everything racing fans could ask for and quite a bit more. In a bucolic Fall setting under beautiful blue skies, racing fans in Kentucky witnessed a full weekend of quality competitive…

With three different Derby points races on Saturday and many other graded stakes races, fans can watch racing all day and not get bored. From a betting standpoint, the Grade 2, $750000 Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct, Grade 1, $1 million Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and Grade 1, $750000 Santa Anita Derby appear chalky. Players need to either go…

The Breeders' Cup has announced the official order of races and wagering menu for the 2022 Breeders' Cup World Championships, scheduled to take place on Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov. 5 at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. There will be a total of 10 races (five Breeders' Cup races) on the first day of the Championships - "Future Stars…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The 39th annual Breeders' Cup World Championships kicked off at Keeneland Race Course on a beautiful autumn day in the Bluegrass. Forte inserted himself as the early Derby favorite via his come-from-behind win in the Juvenile for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher. The son of Violence, ridden by Eclipse Award-winning jockey Irad…

The big day has arrived: it's Breeders Cup Saturday. There are eight Grade 1 races, spread out over almost six hours; it's the best day of the year to be a horseplayer. We expect fast dirt and firm turf in all races, so let's go. Keeneland, Race 3, 11:50 am ET Grade 1 Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, 7 furlongs, Dirt, Fillies & Mares 3 &…

We Are NY Horse Racing, a coalition of small businesses, labor unions, nonprofits, trade associations, and other groups that support the sport of horse racing in New York, has announced that the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) has secured a commitment to bring the Breeders' Cup World Championship back to New York if Belmont Park on Long…

Flavien Prat, atop Flightline, looks between his legs for the rest of the field after winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at the Breeders' Cup Championships at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday. Photo by Mark Abraham/UPI | License Photo LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The Breeders' Cup is in the rearview mirror and the star of the…

Irish-bred Modern Games defeated Bass Racing's homebred Annapolis and 12 other world-class thoroughbreds Saturday in the $2 million FanDuel Breeders' Cup Mile at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. The race was contested as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, an event highlighted by the highly anticipated and widely expected…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Hype or history? The answer will be known in a matter of hours, when undefeated Flightline attempts to add to his short but scintillating resume by winning the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course. The deck appears stacked in favor of the John Sadler-trained 4-year-old, who has won his first five…

Welcome to our regularly scheduled "Team Tuley's Thoroughbred Takes" Saturday column, though it's extra-special this week as our crew is looking at the 9 Breeders' Cup races at Keeneland. "Future Stars Friday" didn't go too well for our crew overall, though I did have #4 Forte as my top pick in the BC Juvenile, paying $12.04 to Win as he upset…

NBC Sports and Peacock Present Nine Hours of Live Coverage of the 2022 Breeders' Cup World Championships from Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky Live Coverage of the Richest Two Days in Horse Racing Begins This Friday at 2 p.m. ET on USA Network & Saturday at 1 p.m. ET on USA Network; Saturday Coverage on NBC and Peacock Begins at 3:30…

Befitting of his champion 3-year-old thoroughbred, jockey Florent Geroux knifed through traffic in July's Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park and suddenly found racing room along the rail. From there, Cyberknife charged past Taiba in the deep stretch to win the $1 million Haskell in a track record time of 1:46.24 for 9 furlongs. While the connections…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - In 2015, American Pharoah showed the world his greatness by winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland Race Course after sweeping the Triple Crown earlier in the year. The Classic will be run again at the venerable Kentucky racetrack as the talented Flightline will look to add to his growing resume where he takes on seven…

Trainer Bob Baffert can add to his record number of wins by a trainer when he sends out Taiba in the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course. The 69-year-old Baffert has won the race four times, most recently with Authentic in the 2020 Classic, which also was held at Keeneland. No other trainer has won the Breeders' Cup…

At a neutral venue, you would fancy the highly likeable and adaptable Highfield Princess as a more likely winner than Golden Pal. That is no definitive comment on their abilities, it is simply that she has built her record under a wider spread of conditions, from steadily run 6½f races like the Maurice de Gheest to a soundly run Nunthorpe. This…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Breeders' Cup (BC) undercard Saturday includes a number of talented thoroughbreds on Day Two of the world championships at Keeneland Race Course. Nine Breeders' Cup races means a full schedule of betting opportunities on tap. The Breeders' Cup will be televised live on NBC, Peacock, USA Network, and FanDuel TV (formerly known…

Never televised in prime time and hardly known outside racing circles, the 4-year-old is favored for a grand opening, and grand finale, in Saturday's Breeders' Cup. Outlined against an orange-pink October sky, the horseman rode again. Juan Leyva, the only exercise rider for perhaps the greatest American racehorse of the 21st century, spurred his…

Outlined against an orange-pink October sky, the horseman rode again. Juan Leyva, the only exercise rider for perhaps the greatest American racehorse of the 21st century, spurred his mount from a trot into a gallop at the five-eighths pole on the Keeneland Race Course backstretch and was gone. The sunrise that was painting the eastern sky had not…

Will this weekend's Breeders' Cup Classic serve as the crowning moment for a horse that will go down in the history books, or will it be the setting for a major upset? We'll find out Saturday evening at Keeneland, which will host horse racing's World Championships for the third time and welcome one of the sport's biggest stars in recent memory. The…

Winchell Thoroughbreds' Epicenter - born and raised in Bowling Green, Ky. - will attempt to cement his status as North America's best 3-year-old and stake a claim as Horse of the Year in Saturday's $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland Race Course. Epicenter is the 5-1 second choice in the morning line behind unbeaten sensation…

Travers Stakes winner Epicenter can cap off a sensational three-year-old season when he leaves the starting gate in the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course. Trained by Steve Asmussen, Epicenter has four wins, including the Travers, and three runner-up finishes in 2022 and is one of the major contenders for champion…

Breeders Cup is without a doubt one of the biggest horse races in the world, gaining the attention of millions of horse racing enthusiasts from all around the world. After the Triple Crown races, the Breeders' Cup is the next biggest race in the calendar and is often considered the fourth leg of the Triple Crown races. Since we approach the date of…

It's hard to believe, but the Breeders Cup is in just three weeks. That leaves the stakes schedule a little light, as the best horses currently in the country have all run their prep races, and will be training up to the big event. Into this void, fortuitously enough, is the biggest day of the year for steeplechasers: the one-day Far Hills meeting…

Thursday's Race Recap from Delaware Park: (All odds US) Replays for yesterday's races from Delaware Park can be found here: Delaware Park: Race 1: 1st@ 2.50/1 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Race 3: 5th@ 1.70/1 In Race 1 at Delaware our 8/1 morning line selection Coronova was bet down to 5/2 odds here in the U.S. and that proved to be smart money as she won by 5 in her…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Bob Baffert knows a thing or two about getting 2-year-old racehorses to perform at an elite level on the biggest stages. The Hall of Fame trainer has conditioned six Eclipse Award winners for Champion 2-Year-Old Male and a record-tying five winners of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Baffert appears primed to add to both of those…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - First the dark of night lifted, then the thick mist of a dense fog, which reduced the racehorses to ghostlike silhouettes on Thursday morning, also lifted. All clear, we are set for takeoff. It's perhaps a measure of a horse's mystique when his rival connections are more effusive than his own trainer is. Or maybe John Sadler just…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Months of anticipation will come to 14 thundering conclusions over the next two days as the Breeders' Cup draws many of the world's top thoroughbred racehorses to the heart of Bluegrass country. Most of the attention will be focused on the $6 million Classic on Saturday at historic Keeneland Race Course, where unbeaten and untested…

Editor's note: This is the Thursday, Nov. 3 edition of the "Game Day with Kevin Modesti" newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, . Today's Q&A with horse racing writer Art Wilson and handicapper Bob Mieszerski about this week's Breeders' Cup should interest readers who already follow racing and others who wonder what the fuss is…

The richest horse race in North America will take place on Saturday, the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic. With a purse of $6 million, the Breeders' Cup 2022 attracts the top horses from all over the world, with the winner also often taking home Horse of the Year honors. The Breeders' Cup Classic 2022 will take place at Keeneland Race Course and measures…

The 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic will feature a stacked field of eight horses running at Keeneland Race Course on Saturday, all looking to claim the last major horse racing event of the year. Not limited to three-year-olds, the purse for the Breeders' Cup Classic 2022 is $6 million, which equals this year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and…

It was a very cool, very breezy Saturday at Churchill Downs for the Breeders' Cup in November 2006. When I arrived at my outdoor, clubhouse-bend temporary bleacher seat, for which I had forked over a thin brick of cold hard cash, I was not pleased. No way, no how was I going freeze my ass off for several hours of racing - from left, freakin'…

There is a star studded field lined up at Keeneland Racetrack for the 2022 Breeders Cup on Saturday. Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike and the undefeated favorite Flightline are among the horses taking to the post for a $6 million purse. While sports betting in Missouri isn't legal, horse racing fans can still bet on the big race at the top…

If you're the type of bettor who goes to the races rummaging for underdogs, well, there's a reason they're called long shots. That 55-1 attraction in the third race at Ellis Park might be a horse who's never raced, or never won or has yet to reveal his true pedigree. Money wagered on a dearth of past performances makes for Powerball-level…

Longshot Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike will try to pull off another shocking upset when he leaves the starting gate in the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course. Six months ago, Rich Strike became the second biggest longshot to win the Kentucky Derby when he crossed the finish line at 80-1 odds. Since then, he is…

It's a good bet that the NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies could be one of the best wagering races on dirt of the Future Stars Friday card at Keeneland. With a capacity crowd in attendance both in the stands and in the starting gate, it might be a good idea to look past tepid morning-line favorite #10 Chocolate Gelato (7-2) from the Todd…

Trainer John Sadler will try to win for just the second time when he saddles the undefeated Flightline in the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course. The 66-year-old Sadler won the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2018 with Accelerate, his only winner among six all-time starters in the race. On Saturday, he goes for No. 2 with…