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G. Watts Humphrey Jr. and the Louise Ireland Humphrey Revocable Trust-2008’s Veiled Prophet swept past dueling leaders Whitley and Ordination (IRE) inside the eighth pole and went on to win Friday’s $57,110 feature for 3-year-olds and up by three-quarters of a length before a “Downs After Dark” crowd of 15,583 at Churchill Downs.

The 15,583 attendance mark represented a 191 percent increase compared to the 5,363 on hand for an afternoon program on the same day a year ago.

In giving jockey Julien Leparoux his third victory of the night, Veiled Prophet raced at the back of the pack in the field of nine in the early going of the one-mile test on the Matt Winn Turf Course as Quite a Handful and Ordination battled for the lead through fractions of :24.15, :48.50 and 1:13.42.

Turning for home, Veiled Prophet had only one horse beat as Ordination took the lead. Approaching midstretch, Whitley moved to the inside to challenge Ordination while Veiled Prophet began to split horses and then surged past the leaders to complete the mile on a course labeled “good” in 1:38.59.

Trained by Rusty Arnold, Veiled Prophet is a 5-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Kingmambo. The victory was worth $34,776 and increased the winner’s earnings to $175,102 with a record of 4-2-1 in 22 races.

Veiled Prophet returned $12.20, $5.80 and $3.80. Whitley, also trained by Arnold and ridden by Miguel Mena, finished second and returned $6.80 and $3.60 while Ordination finished a nose back in third under Robby Albarado and paid $3 to show.

Racing resumes Saturday afternoon with a 10-race program beginning at 12:40 p.m. (all times Eastern).  Highlighting the card will be the 20th running of the $175,000-added Mrs. Revere (GII) for 3-year-old fillies going 1 1/16 miles on the Matt Winn Turf Course. Post time for the Mrs. Revere, which will go as the day’s ninth race, is 4:37 p.m. There’s a six-day carryover in the Pick 6 of $62,930, which will covers races 5-10. Additionally, there’s a Super Hi-5 carryover of $7,002 for the final race of the day.

Jill Baffert and Lynn Jacobs’ Kimmyv repulsed a challenge from Millennia at the head of the stretch and then drew off to a 6 ¼-length victory in Thursday’s $47,500 allowance feature for fillies and mares at Churchill Downs.

    Trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan, Kimmvy assumed command after a quarter-mile in :22.77, maintained a daylight advantage to the top of the stretch and then shrugged off a bid from Millennia to score her third victory in three starts in 2010.
    
    Kimmyv, a 4-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of El Corredor, covered the seven furlongs on a fast main track in 1:23.76. The victory was worth $30,000 and increased Kimmyv’s earnings to $82,400 with a record of 6-4-1-1.

    As the favorite in the field of seven, Kimmyv returned $3.80, $2.40 and $2.20. Millennia, ridden by Robby Albarado, returned $3.40 and $2.80 with Concert finishing third two lengths back in third under Corey Lanerie and paying $3.60 to show.

The Pick 6, which requires bettors to select the winners of races five through 10, was hit Thursday after being unsolved for the first six days of the meet. There were 134 perfect tickets (11 at Churchill Downs) resulting in a $21,317.80 payoff. The day began with a $947,641 carryover and another $3,138,615 was bet into the pool.

The Super Hi-5, which requires bettors to select the first five finishers in order, also was hit after a six-day carryover with a payoff of $30,912.10 to each of the 20 winning tickets, including one on-track.

Racing continues Friday with a 10-race program with first post time at 2:45 p.m. (EDT).

Churchill Downs, the world’s most legendary racetrack, has conducted Thoroughbred racing and presented America’s greatest race, the Kentucky Derby, continuously since 1875. Located in Louisville, the flagship racetrack of Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ Global Select Market: CHDN) also operates Trackside at Churchill Downs, which offers year-round simulcast wagering at the historic track. Churchill Downs will host the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands on Saturday, May 1 and the Kentucky Oaks on Friday, April 30. The track will conduct its 2010 Spring Meet from Saturday, April 24 through Sunday, July 4. Churchill Downs is scheduled to host the Breeders’ Cup World Championships for a record seventh time on Nov. 5 and 6, 2010. Churchill Downs tickets are available at Tickets.ChurchillDowns.com or by calling (502) 636-4400. Additional information about Churchill Downs can be found on the Internet at ChurchillDowns.com.

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Racing returns to historic Churchill Downs on Thursday, May 6 after a four-day break that followed memorable renewals of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and the Kentucky Oaks with a 10-race program highlighted by large carryover pools in both its Pick 6 and Super Hi-5 wagers.

The Pick 6, which requires bettors to select the winners of six consecutive races, returns on Thursday in races 5-10 with a two-day Oaks-Derby carryover of $947,641.  The Super Hi-5, which is offered in the day’s final race and requires fans to select its first five finishers in the correct order, returns with a carryover of $147,055 that remained when no one hit the Derby Hi-5 wager in Saturday’s ”Run for the Roses” won by WinStar Farm’s Super Saver.

Post time for the first of Thursday’s 10 races is 12:45 p.m. (all times EDT) and the 5th race, which begins the Pick 6 sequence, has a scheduled post time of 2:53 p.m. The 10th race, which features the Super Hi-5 has a scheduled post of 5:28 p.m.

The Pick-6 sequence looms as a challenging exercise for racing fans with large, competitive fields of Thoroughbreds.  It opens with a field of nine horses entered in the 5th race and is followed by the 6th (11horses), 7th (9), 8th (12), 9th (8 horses, including a coupled entry), and the 10th (a full field of 12 with two also-eligibles), which is also the Thursday’s Super Hi-5 race.

Along with the return of live racing, simulcasting is set to resume at Trackside at Churchill Downs in the track’s clubhouse after spending most of April at Trackside Louisville on Poplar Level Road, which was unable to opens its doors last Sunday because of a power outage.  Fans who wish to cash their Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby 136 mutuel tickets and were unable to do so because of Sunday’s power outage will be admitted free to Trackside at Churchill when they produce one of those tickets at the gate.  Free admission will be granted to those patrons through Sunday, May 9.

Admission gates open on Thursday at 11:30 a.m.  Post time for the first race in Churchill Downs’ Thursday-Sunday racing schedule this week is 12:45 p.m., with the exception of Friday’s 2:45 p.m. post time for the first session of “Dress to Impress Friday Happy Hours” sponsored by Budweiser Select.
Saturday’s racing program features the return of the popular “Get in the Game” seminars conducted by Churchill Downs racing analyst Jill Byrne.  The seminar will be  conducted in the Paddock, weather permitting, and will begin at 11:45 a.m.

Sunday is Mother’s Day at the Downs and fans have the opportunity to treat Mom to a delicious Mother’s Day Brunch and enjoy a day of terrific racing at the home of the Kentucky Derby.  Reservations are required for the spectacular Levy Restaurants’ brunch in Millionaires Row 4 & 6, Skye Terrace 5 and the Stakes Room, all of which offer a spectacular view of the track, admission, reserved seat and racing program.  Reservations may be made online through Churchill Downs’ Box Office at http://tickets.churchilldowns.com/.

Paul Pompa Jr.’s Mary’s Follies rolled to a 1 ½-length victory over Keertana in stakes-record time to win the 19th running of the $206,500 Mrs. Revere (Grade II) for 3-year-old fillies on Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs.

    Ridden by Kent Desormeaux for trainer Rick Dutrow, Mary’s Follies covered the 1 1/16 miles on a firm Matt Winn Turf Course in 1:41.73 to shave more than a second off the stakes mark of 1:42.86 set by Snow Dance in 2001.

    Desormeaux gave Mary’s Follies a ground-saving trip in the field of 14 as War Kill and Romacaca led the field through fractions of :24.23, :48.57 and 1:12.50. Leaving the far turn, Mary’s Follies angled off the hedge and hit the top of the stretch three wide with a clear shot at the leaders.

    Mary’s Follies breezed past Romacaca in the upper stretch, spurted clear and had more than enough to hold off Keertana, who was ridden by Jesus Castanon. Romacaca, ridden by E. T. Baird, held on for third another length back and finished a neck ahead of favored Hot Cha Cha, ridden by James Graham.

    A Kentucky-bred daughter of More Than Ready, Mary’s Follies’ victory was worth $116,509 and increased her earnings to $317,889. Now 2-for-2 on the grass, Mary’s Follies improved her career record to 9-4-3-1.

    Mary’s Follies rewarded her backers with mutuels of $20.80, $11.40 and $8.40. Keertana returned $14 and $7.80 with Romacaca paying $10.80 to show.

    Racing resumes Sunday with a 10-race program headlined by the sixth running of the $100,000-added Commonwealth Turf (GIII) for 3-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles on the Matt Winn Turf Course. First post time Sunday is 12:40 p.m. (all times ET) with the Commonwealth Turf going at 4:37 p.m. as the ninth race.

    There is a 10-day carryover of $164,755.24 in the Pick 6 that requires bettors to pick the winners in Races 5-10. Also, there is a $10,273.67 carryover in the Super Hi-5 that requires bettors to select the first five finishers in order in the 10th race.

POST-RACE QUOTES – THE MRS. REVERE

RICK DUTROW, trainer of MARY’S FOLLIES, winner (via telephone from a New York apartment): “She was training unbelievable for the last month. It looks like she might be just a grass horse. She’s a nice little filly. The jock gave her a great ride, and she had a great trip. All good there.”

KENT DESORMEAUX, jockey of MARY’S FOLLIES, winner: “When I was in the paddock before the race I was told that I had a loaded gun underneath me. All I had to do was aim and pull the trigger. She (Mary’s Follies) put me into a great position. She broke very smart and put us into a very energetic spot, and that set us up very well for the rest of the trip. She was really full of run when crossing under the wire today. She was really breathing fire today. This one really seems to have found herself on the turf. We beat a very good bunch of proven horses. She is just a very nice filly.”

TOM PROCTOR, trainer of KEERTANA, runner-up: “You can’t be five-wide on both turns and the winner be on the fence – and that’s not cussing the jockey, that’s cussin’ the post position.  The winner gets through on the fence and mine on both turns was four-or-five wide.  That’s the way it goes.
    “This was a tough race and the reason this race came up like this is that everybody had their horse running all year long.  And kudos to whoever was in this race, because a lot of them had run at a high level all year long, and that’s why the race came up so tough.  Usually you don’t see that – you see one or two of those come in like that, but all these trainers kept their horses around all year long.  
    “She’ll get a break similar to what we did last year.  We’ll go to Ocala (Fla.) and give her a couple of months off, then we’ll start back up and have her ready for Keeneland, hopefully.”

JESUS CASTANON, jockey on KEERTANA, runner-up: “She ran good.  We talked this morning, Tom (Proctor) and me, and we figured there was going to be a little more speed and the pace was going to be a little tough in the beginning.   But everything just went the opposite way and I was up there close.
    “I really can’t take anything away from her – she really gave me a nice race.  It was just one of those deals.  This horse responds really good when you get to the stretch – she really kicks in.  My filly was chasing the winner, but she just got through on us.”

PHILIP SIMS, trainer of HOT CHA CHA, fourth as the favorite: “She ran well, she just had a little traffic trouble.  And the pace was a little slow.  I was expecting (a half-mile) in :46 or :47, but they went in :48-and-change and three-quarters in (a minute) 12, and I thought ‘Uh-oh.’  But they finished up in a pretty fast time.”
Q: She’s had a great year … “She’s been a lot of fun this year.  She’ll get a little time off and come back here next spring.”

JAMES GRAHAM, jockey on HOT CHA CHA, fourth as the favorite: “I might have taken her back a little bit too far.  I thought they were going to go a little quicker, but I was already committed to sitting on her.  I should have asked her a little earlier, but that’s racing today.  She run a good race – it just wasn’t her day today.”

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Churchill Downs will offer free general admission to all United States veterans and active military on Wednesday, Nov. 11 with proof of identification.

    Admission gates open at 11:30 a.m. and the 10-race card, which begins at 12:40 p.m. ET, is highlighted by a six-day Pick 6 carryover of $21,099 on Races 5-10.

Also, Wednesday is the first of three “Seniors Days” during Churchill Downs’ 2009 Fall Meet. For $19, seniors will receive admission, a racing program, a reserved seats and lunch in Millionaires’ Row 4. The other two dates are Wednesday, Nov. 18 and Wednesday, Nov. 25.
    
Churchill Downs’ 120th Fall Meet, featuring world-class horse racing, continues its 21-day run through Saturday, Nov. 28. General admission is $3, but only $1 for senior citizens and members of the track’s free-to-join Twin Spires Club. Children 12 and under are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Parking is free in the Longfield Avenue lot (Gates 10 & 12) and $3 in all other lots. Valet parking is $5. For more information or to purchase reserved seats, call (502) 636-4400 or visit www.ChurchillDowns.com.

Churchill Downs, the world’s most legendary racetrack, has conducted Thoroughbred racing and presented America’s greatest race, the Kentucky Derby, continuously since 1875. Located in Louisville, the flagship racetrack of Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ Global Select Market: CHDN) also operates Trackside at Churchill Downs, which offers year-round simulcast wagering at the historic track. Churchill Downs will conduct the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 1, 2010. The track will conduct its 2009 Fall Meet from Sunday, Nov. 1 through Saturday, Nov. 28. Churchill Downs is scheduled to host the Breeders’ Cup World Championships for a record seventh time on November 5 and 6, 2010. Information about Churchill Downs can be found on the Internet at www.churchilldowns.com.

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Fans who are still recovering from the 135th Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and the surprise victory by 50-1 shot Mine That Bird will have added motivation to return to the track when the Spring Meet resumes on Wednesday as huge carryover pools will be available in both the Pick 6 and Super HI-5 wagers.

The Pick 6, a $2 minimum wager that requires bettors to correctly select the winners of six consecutive races, has a carryover pool of $781,146 as Spring Meet racing resumes following a three-day post-Derby break. The Super HI-5, a $1 minimum wager that requires the bettor to correctly select the first five horses in the correct order-of-finish in a selected race, has a carryover pool of $251,856.
    
    Post time for the first of nine races on Wednesday’s Churchill Downs program is 12:45 p.m. (all times EDT).  Admission gates open at 11:30 a.m.  General admission to Churchill Downs is $3 and $1 for members of the Twin Spires Club and seniors 60 and older.  Admission is free for children 12 and under.

    Saturday’s Kentucky Derby Day racing card marked the fourth consecutive program in which no perfect tickets were purchased in the Pick 6.  Wednesday’s $781,146 Pick 6 carryover pool is the third largest at Churchill Downs since the wager was introduced in 1984.

    Wednesday’s Pick 6 sequence begins in the fourth race, which has a scheduled post time of 2:21 p.m.

    Wednesday’s Super Hi-5 wager is scheduled for the day’s ninth and final race.  Post time for the ninth race is 4:59 p.m.

    Churchill Downs racing in the week after Kentucky Derby 135 will continue through Sunday.  Post time for racing on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday is 12:45 p.m.  Racing on Friday, May 8 will include the Spring Meet’s “Friday Happy Hours Kickoff.” Post time for Friday’s program is 2:45 p.m.  Admission gates open at 1:30 p.m.
    “Friday Happy Hours,” sponsored by Budweiser Select, features live music, beer and cocktail specials each week from 4-7 p.m.  Each week, one lucky lady who enjoys “Friday Happy Hours” will be chosen “Most Stylish” and will win a $250 shopping spree in a Louisville boutique.

    The first of the Spring Meet’s “Get in the Game” handicapping seminars with Churchill Downs racing analyst Jill Byrne is set for Saturday, May 9 in the Paddock.   Join Jill and a special guest each week for the seminars, which will begin at noon.  If weather is poor, the “Get in the Game” seminars will be held in the Trackside ITW area in the second floor of the Clubhouse.

    Spring Meet racing at Churchill Downs continues through July 5.  More information about Churchill Downs racing is available on the Web at www.churchilldowns.com or your can follow Churchill Downs racing on Twitter at @churchilldowns.

There’s a $10,664.79 Pick 6 carryover for Friday’s 11-race program at Churchill Downs after no one had the perfect sequence Thursday. 

Friday’s first race on the Fourth of July is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. (all times Eastern) and the Pick 6, which requires bettors to string together six straight winners, will cover Races 6-11 starting at approximately 3:49 p.m.

(June 27, 2008) – Six consecutive double-figure payoffs in the final six races on Friday’s 11-race twilight program at Churchill Downs helped trigger a $24,377 Pick 6 carryover for Saturday.

The winners in Friday’s Pick 6 sequence, which began in Race 6 were Lady Fortune ($31.20), Dominic’s Desire ($18), Geri’s Kid ($13.20), Kentucky Peaches ($25.80), Mister Fusaichi ($13.60) and Senorita’s Secrets ($29).

There also were no tickets with four or five winners. Three correct selections returned $125.20.

Saturday’s 11-race card at the Louisville racetrack begins at 1:15 p.m. (all times Eastern) and the Pick 6, which requires bettors to string together six straight winners, will cover Races 6-11 starting at approximately 3:46 p.m.

The featured event on Saturday’s program is the 108th running of the $100,000-added Debutante (Grade III), a six-furlong sprint for 2-year-old fillies that is scheduled as Race 10 at 5:51 p.m.

(June 26, 2008) – Adele Dilschneider and Claiborne Farm’s Quota reclaimed the lead at midstretch from Lenawee and went on to score a three-length in Thursday’s $45,200 Valu Market Classic for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up at Churchill Downs.

The victory was the third of the day for jockey Robby Albarado, giving the Spring Meet’s leading rider his second consecutive three-win day and eighth three-win day of the meet to go with two four-win days.

Quota, a 4-year-old daughter of Seeking the Gold, covered the six furlongs on a fast track in 1:10.24 in winning for the third time in six career starts. She boosted her career earnings to $118,666 with the $28,348 winner’s check.

Trained by Al Stall Jr., Quota returned $5, $2.80 and $2.20 as the favorite in the field of five. Lenawee, ridden by Jamie Theriot, returned $3 and $2.20. Kristabella ran third under Robert Reeves Jr., but was disqualified for interference in the stretch to elevate Star of Luvina and Julien Leparoux into the show spot and a $2.40 payoff.

Quota was the lone favorite to prevail on Thursday’s nine-race program. Seven double-figure win payoffs equaled a high for the meet, matching that of the April 26 opening day card. As a result, there were no perfect tickets in the Pick 6 that triggered a $17,238.37 carryover for Races 6-11 on Friday.

The first of 11 live races at Churchill Downs on Friday is 2:45 p.m. (EDT).

A victory by a 49-1 longshot in Churchill Downs' 9th race on Wednesday made a single bettor an instant millionaire with the second-largest Pick 6 payout in track history.  But the prospect of another mammoth win remained in play as the track's new Super Hi-5 wager was not hit and a record carryover pool of $866,712 will be available for the wager on the final race on Thursday's nine-race card.

        A win in Wednesday's finale by Lucille Davis's Future Prospect, who paid $100.80 to win as the second longest shot in a field of 11 claiming horses, allowed the entire Pick 6 pool of $1.127,774.60 to go to an unidentified bettor who wagered through the Nevada betting hub. The winning Pick 6 ticket consisted of numbers 5-6-1-5-1-6. Consolation payouts on tickets that contained five winners returned $3,065.60.

        A one-day carryover pool of $410,599 that was created when no one hit the Pick 6 on Saturday's Kentucky Derby Day racing program fueled Wednesday's Pick 6 betting. The Pick 6 is a $2 minimum wager that requires fans to correctly select the winners of six consecutive races.

        The massive Pick 6 payout fell just short of the record $1,168,136 payout that went to a single ticket-holder on June 25, 2003. Wednesday's wager included races 4-9 and the winning horses were:

                        4th - #5 Adhrhythm ($18.40)

                        5th - #6 Segal ($4.20)

                        6th - #1 Trainee ($8.80)

                        7th - #5 Appellate ($29)

                        8th - #1 Sprung ($6.40)

                                9th - #6 Future Prospect ($100.80) 

        While the Pick 6 went down, the new Super Hi-5 wager continued to soar into record territory with its three-day carryover pool of $866,712. The Super Hi-5, which was conducted on Wednesday's 9th race and will be offered on the same race on Thursday, is a $1 minimum bet that requires fans to correctly select the top five finishers in order in a designated race.

         Scheduled post time for Thursday's 9th race is 5:17 p.m. (all times Eastern).

        The wager was offered on Saturday's Kentucky Derby, but there were no perfect Super Hi-5 tickets on the "Run for the Roses" and that created a carryover pool of $331,928 for Wednesday's card.

        The Super Hi-5, which has been offered once per day since the Spring Meet opening on April 26, has already produced a winning payout of $33,013. That went to single bettor during Kentucky Derby Week following a one-day carryover. 

        Post time for the first of nine races on Wednesday's Churchill Downs program is 1:15 p.m. Admission gates open at 11:30 a.m.  General admission to Churchill Downs is $3, and $1 for members of the Twin Spires Club and seniors 60 and older. Admission is free for children 12 and under.

        Churchill Downs, the world's most legendary racetrack, has conducted Thoroughbred racing and presented America's greatest race, the Kentucky Derby, continuously since 1875. Located in Louisville, the flagship racetrack of Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ Global Select Market: CHDN) also operates Trackside at Churchill Downs, which offers year-round simulcast wagering at the historic track. Churchill Downs will conduct the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 2, 2009. The track's 2008 Spring Meet continues through July 6. Churchill Downs has hosted the Breeders' Cup World Championships a record six times. Information about Churchill Downs can be found on the Internet at www.churchilldowns.com.