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Zandon
02
May
  • Churchill Downs
  • Epicenter
  • Kentucky Derby
  • Messier
  • Mo Donegal
  • Triple Crown
  • White Abarrio
  • Zandon

Zandon installed as Kentucky Derby favorite

  • Press Release / 5 years
  • 2
  • 6 min read

Blue Grass Stakes winner Zandon has been installed as the narrow 3-1 morning line favorite for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby and will leave from post 10.

29
Apr
  • Churchill Downs
  • Derby Bill Watson
  • Evan Hammonds
  • Jason Sauer
  • Off to the Races

Off to the Races Radio: Busy Saturday morning

  • Press Release / 5 years
  • 2
  • 2 min read

Off to the Races returns to the airwaves April 30 with a show featuring Churchill Downs VP Jason Sauer, former Blood-Horse editor Evan Hammonds and more.

Virginia Derby
08
Apr
  • Bill Carstanjen
  • Churchill Downs
  • Colonial Downs
  • Virginia horse racing
  • Virginia-Certified Thoroughbred Program

Churchill CEO: “Virginia has a chance to be reborn”

  • Nick Hahn / 5 years
  • 2
  • 6 min read

Churchill Downs CEO Bill Carstanjen told the Virginia Racing Commission that he sees big opportunity for racing but may have ruffled some feathers, too.

01
Mar
  • Churchill Downs
  • Colonial Downs
  • Debbie Easter
  • Virginia horse racing
  • Virginia Thoroughbred Association

Virginia, Churchill Downs goals “going to be aligned”

  • Frank Vespe / 5 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Some folks fret about what Churchill Downs’s purchase of Colonial Downs means for the future, but VTA head Debbie Easter expects their goals to align.

Colonial Downs
22
Feb
  • Bill Carstanjen
  • Churchill Downs
  • Colonial Downs
  • Virginia horse racing

Churchill to acquire Colonial Downs

  • Frank Vespe / 5 years
  • 2
  • 2 min read

Churchill Downs will acquire Colonial Downs and its associated properties in a larger, nearly $2.5 billion deal expected to close by year’s end.

Justify
03
Jun
  • Belmont Stakes
  • Bob Baffert
  • Churchill Downs
  • Craig Robertson
  • Kentucky Derby
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • NYRA
  • Pimlico
  • Preakness
  • Triple Crown

What we have is a failure to communicate

  • Frank Vespe / 5 years
  • 3
  • 4 min read

Bob Baffert won’t have a horse in the Belmont, but all anyone can talk about is Bob Baffert. It’s exhausting, and another whiff.

02
Jun
  • Bob Baffert
  • Churchill Downs
  • Kentucky Derby
  • Triple Crown

Bob Baffert ruled off by Churchill Downs

  • Frank Vespe / 5 years
  • 3
  • 3 min read

Bob Baffert has been ruled off all Churchill Downs properties for the next two years, the company announced.

Medina Spirit
10
May
  • ARCI
  • Bob Baffert
  • Churchill Downs
  • Donald Trump
  • Ed Martin
  • Maryland Jockey Club
  • Medina Spirit
  • The Jockey Club

“No idea what the hell he is talking about”

  • Frank Vespe / 6 years
  • 4
  • 5 min read

Bob Baffert has a cancel culture problem. Ed Martin has a Bob Baffert problem. Donald Trump has all kinds of problems. What’s going on this Preakness week?

Medina Spirit
01
May
  • Bob Baffert
  • Churchill Downs
  • John Velazquez
  • Kentucky Derby
  • Medina Spirit
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing

Medina Spirit upsets Kentucky Derby

  • Frank Vespe / 6 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

It wasn’t going to be Bob Baffert’s year, but yet again it was as his trainee Medina Spirit scored a front-running upset in the Kentucky Derby.

Fast Boat
01
May
  • Attachment Rate
  • Chess Chief
  • Churchill Downs
  • Fiya
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing

Update: Midlantic-breds in Churchill stakes

  • Frank Vespe / 6 years
  • 2
  • 3 min read

Four Midlantic-breds tackled Churchill Downs stakes on Friday, but none will face the starter on Saturday’s Kentucky Derby card.

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