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With only two weeks remaining in the Churchill Downs Spring Meet, racing fans will have no shortage of entertainment this week as Downs After Dark returns Saturday with a patriotic America250 celebration, Twilight Thursday honors local educators; and...

Grade I winner Burnham Square returned to Skylight Training Center in nearby Goshen, Ky. on Sunday following his hard-fought victory in Saturday’s $217,500 Chorleywood Stakes (Listed) at Churchill Downs and will target the $1 million Arlington Million...

Following a 35-year riding career that included more than 5,000 victories, jockey Corey Lanerie announced he will retire at the conclusion of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet on Sunday, June 28.
Lanerie, 51, will leave the sport with mounts that earned...

Jockey Luan Machado believes Hat Creek Racing’s Percy’s Bar has put her disappointing Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) effort behind her and is poised to return to top form in Saturday’s $175,000 Monomoy Girl Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Percy’s...

Spendthrift Farm’s Grade I winner and beaten Kentucky Derby 152 favorite Further Ado will attempt to get his summer campaign back on track in Sunday’s $500,000 Matt Winn Stakes (Grade III) at Churchill Downs, a race trainer Brad Cox has previously...

Saturday’s $225,000 Mighty Beau Stakes (Listed) at Churchill Downs will give Grade I winner Troubleshooting another opportunity to showcase the talent trainer Greg Foley always believed was there.
“He’s continued to get better as he’s gotten older,”...

Horseplayers will have an opportunity to chase a big payout Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs with a $79,180 carryover to the Late Pick 5 on Stephen Foster Preview Day.
 
Saturday’s Late Pick 5 sequence begins at 3:53 p.m. (all times Eastern)...

Rigney Racing’s improving 3-year-old filly Tam Tam will attempt to score her first graded stakes victory in Saturday’s $275,000 Regret Stakes (Grade III) at Churchill Downs following a narrow defeat to Imaginationthelady four weeks ago in the Edgewood...

Trainer Brad Cox will bring a powerful quintet of contenders to Saturday’s Stephen Foster Preview Day at Churchill Downs, led by Dubai World Cup (GI) winner Hit Show and Eclipse Award-winning filly Immersive.
Saturday’s blockbuster 11-race program...

For trainer Kent Sweezey, being based at Churchill Downs represents more than a career opportunity. It’s a return to the Kentucky racing circuit where his passion for the sport first began.
Sweezey, who has a 14-horse division stabled at Churchill Downs,...