The Official Churchill Downs Blog

If you’re looking for a “Key Race” look no further than the seventh race at Keeneland Race Course on Oct. 15.

The seven-furlong maiden special weight for 2-year-olds was won by Kopitar in 1:23.42.

Thoughts and observations on Churchill Downs’ 2008 Fall Meet from high atop the clubhouse in the sixth floor Joe Hirsch Media Center . . .

Thoughts and observations on Churchill Downs’ 2008 Fall Meet from high atop the clubhouse in the sixth floor Joe Hirsch Media Center . . .

Four Grade II stakes races highlight closing week at Churchill Downs’ 2008 Fall Meet: the $150,000-added Falls City Handicap (fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles) on Thursday (Thanksgiving Day); the $400,000-added Clark Handicap (3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles) on Friday; and the $150,000-added Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (2-year-olds at 1 1/

This week’s feature race is Saturday’s 31st running of the $100,000-added River City Handicap (Grade III), a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up over the Matt Winn Turf Course.

This year’s Fall Meet at Churchill Downs just won’t be the same without our good friend Luke Kruytbosch, who eloquently described the local racing action from 1999 until his untimely death in mid-July.