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  • Keeneland considering expansion
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    By Janet Patton

    Keeneland has hired a prominent sports architecture firm, HOK Sport, to develop a master plan that could lead to expansion, with an eye toward possibly hosting the Breeders' Cup one day.

  • Keeneland

    Fall meet to feature 19 stakes races

    ONe-mile First lady gets elevated to Grade I status

    Special to the Herald-Leader

    Keeneland will offer a record $5.4 million in stakes purses — one of the richest stakes programs in North America — for its 2008 fall race meeting, to be held October 3-25.

  • Keeneland attendance, wagering high

    Keeneland reported the second-highest attendance and wagering figures in spring meet history -- 243,606 and $150.5 million, respectively.

  • 'Miracle horse' pays off

    DANCING FOREVER'S DAM BARELY SURVIVED INJURY

    By Maryjean Wall

    The miracle unfolding at Keeneland when Dancing Forever won the $200,000 Grade II Fifth Third Elkhorn Stakes took his stable back to a race eight years ago and a near-fatal misstep.

Horses entered the paddock near a flowering crab tree at Keeneland on Wednesday, April 23. (Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff)
SPRING MEET
Dates: April 5-25 (No racing on Mondays or Tuesdays)
Times: Gates open at 11 a.m. each race day. Post time is 1:10 p.m.
Tickets: Admission is $3 (Free for children 12 and under). Reserved grandstand seating is an additional $3 on weekdays and an additional $5 on weekends. Order tickets at Keeneland's Web site or at (800) 456-3412.
Parking: Free
Daily TV: Live coverage on TVG. Taped recap on Today at Keeneland at 7 p.m. on CWKYT-5
Daily radio: WLXO-FM 96.1 broadcasts the feature race each day.
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  • DAY AT THE RACES

    Friday's figures: On-track attendance, 18,058; on-track betting, $1,763,158; total betting including simulcast, $12,418,420. This day last year: On-track attendance, 17,654; on-track betting, $1,651,477; total betting including simulcast, $10,706,009.

  • Up-and-down day ends well for Arnold

    WIN MAKES UP FOR TRAINER'S EARLIER MISFORTUNE

    By Maryjean Wall

    Jockey Garrett Gomez and trainer Rusty Arnold had that kind of afternoon Thursday at Keeneland that most people would call crazy. Race 7 saw Gomez disqualified from winning on Accredit. In the same race, Arnold had cause for concern when the colt he trains, Veiled Prophet, tried to climb the rail soon after the start, dislodging jockey Miguel Mena.

  • HORSE SENSES

    Blind, hearing-impaired boy takes in the track

    Patrick Munro, 9, from Long Island, N.Y., is blind and hearing-impaired, and he loves horses. Last week, The Make-A-Wish Foundation granted Patrick's wish to come to Kentucky and experience horses on a grand scale.

  • The day at the races

    Thursday's figures: On-track attendance, 11,673; on-track betting, $1,024,695; total betting including simulcast: $7,861,885 This day last year: On-track attendance, 9,240; on-track betting, $929,651; total betting including simulcast: $7,046,232

  • Spring Meet leaders

    JOCKEYS Mts. 1st 2nd 3rd Kent Desormeaux 97 20 10 13 John Velazquez 61 13 13 9 Garret Gomez 74 12 13 10 Jamie Theriot 77 12 9 9 Robby Albarado 93 10 20 14

  • Some bettors flummoxed by Polytrack

    KEENELAND HANDLE HAS TAKEN A HIT

    By Maryjean Wall

    Betting totals are down 13.5 percent at Keeneland this spring, and some are saying that's because it's too difficult to pick a winner on the fairly new synthetic track.

  • The day at the races

    Yesterday's figures: on-track attendance, 11,069; on-track betting, $939,677; total betting including simulcast, $6,503,061. This day last year: on-track attendance, 9,625; on-track betting, $960,541; total betting including simulcast, $7,448,888.

  • KEENELAND

    Trainer nabs two stakes in one weekend

    PIERCE'S STERWINS ROCKETS FROM LAST TO WIN BEN ALI

    By Maryjean Wall

    The gray horse streaking down the stretch to the lead at Keeneland on Sunday was capping off a big weekend for Canadian trainer Malcolm Pierce.

  • Day at the races

    Sunday's figures: On-track attendance, 17,385; on-track betting, $1,189,499; total betting including simulcast, $8,130,202. This day last year: On-track attendance, 20,107; on-track betting, $1,364,030; total betting including simulcast, $9,197,226.

  • COOLMORE LEXINGTON STAKES

    Pletcher continues late rally

    Behindatthebar probably headed to Preakness

    By Maryjean Wall

    Todd Pletcher paused while the rain pelted down at Keeneland, drenching the stylish, dark blue suit he'd worn to win the $325,000 Coolmore Lexington Stakes.

  • Day at the races

    Saturday's figures: On-track attendance, 26,072; on-track betting, $2,051,445; total betting including simulcast, $13,575,560. This day last year: On-track attendance, 33,821; on-track betting, $2,223,291; total betting including simulcast, $15,037,839.

  • One last chance for Derby hopefuls

    Lexington is last stop with graded money

    By Maryjean Wall

    The Johnny-come-lately of Derby preps, the Coolmore Lexington Stakes, has evolved for some into the most important prep. Some call it the Last Ditch Derby: the last chance for some to win enough graded stakes earnings to get into the top 20 eligible to run in the Kentucky Derby.

  • From flats failure to steeplechase star

    SOVEREIGN DUTY NIPS STABLEMATE AT WIRE

    By Maryjean Wall

    A gelding who was nothing but a small-time loser turned into a Grade I stakes winner Thursday at Keeneland in a story with a Cinderella ending.

  • Day at the races

    Thursday's figures: On-track attendance, 11,611; on-track betting, $1,002,844; total betting including simulcast, $5,846,017 This day last year: On-track attendance, 9,147; on-track betting, $1,006,158; total betting including simulcast, $7,299,976

  • Tomcito trying to earn a Derby trip

    Peruvian-raced colt stops at Keeneland on long Derby road

    By Maryjean Wall

    Canonero II was the only horse on the cargo plane from Venezuela in April 1971, with the horse bound for the Kentucky Derby. The horse shared the trip with hundreds of chickens and ducks, a flight to Miami that turned back twice because of engine fire and other problems. Canonero II got to Churchill Downs, but they didn't want to let him in because no one had heard of him.

  • Pick Six pays $18K

    RECORD CARRYOVER CONTRIBUTES TO $1 MILLION POOL

    By Maryjean Wall

    If you picked the right six horses Wednesday, you were one of 41 ticket holders to collect $18,342.20. A record Pick Six carryover of $307,049 contributed to a total pool of $1,040,949. The winning numbers in the fourth through ninth races were: 7-1-3-7-9-5.

  • The day at the races

    Yesterday's figures: On-track attendance, 10,572; on-track betting, $956,243; total betting including simulcast, $7,296,947. This day last year: On-track attendance, 8,352; on-track betting, $944,347; total betting including simulcast, $7,299,976.

  • Lear named a Keeneland director

    NAMED TO SUCCEED 'BUDDY' BISHOP ON TRACK'S BOARD

    William M. "Bill" Lear Jr. was elected to Keeneland's board of directors and appointed a trustee Wednesday during the corporation's semi-annual meeting.

  • BLUE GRASS STAKES

    Pyro's camp relieved Derby is run on dirt

    By Maryjean Wall

    Pyro munched on his mid-morning snack of hay Sunday, bright-eyed and looking full of run. He looked so eager and energetic that he hardly appeared to have raced 11/8 miles Saturday in the $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes.

  • SHAKERTOWN STAKES

    Hot jockey full of 'surprises'

    MR. NIGHTLINGER ($45.80) SHINES ON TURF

    By Maryjean Wall

    With the way jockey Jamie Theriot is riding at Keeneland, you can hardly bet against him. You'd have made $45.80 for your $2 Sunday if you bet on Theriot riding Mr. Nightlinger to victory in the $125,000 Shakertown Stakes.

  • DAY AT THE RACES

    Sunday's figures: On-track attendance, 9,059; on-track betting, $827,040; total betting including simulcast, $7,244,975. This day last year: On-track attendance, 9,076; on-track betting, $1,058,934; total betting including simulcast, $9,992,454.

  • TOYOTA BLUE GRASS STAKES

    Double punch for Pletcher

    Derby tickets for Monba, Cowboy Cal

    By Maryjean Wall

    With two horses striding hard toward the finish, side by side at Keeneland on a Saturday afternoon that was biting cold, it was clear trainer Todd Pletcher was going to win the $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes.

  • DAY AT THE RACES

    Saturday's figures: Attendance, 26,000; on-track betting, $2,498,672; total betting including simulcast, $17,744,088. The all-time highest single-day attendance on track for the Blue Grass Stakes was 33,621 on April 16, 2005.

  • Rutherienne rallies late to win Jenny Wiley

    13-WEEK LAYOFF DIDN'T SLOW FILLY

    By Alicia Wincze

    As much as trainer Christophe Clement marvels at the talents of his Grade I-winning filly Rutherienne, he was bracing himself for defeat when he looked at the entries for Saturday's Grade II Jenny Wiley Stakes.

  • TOYOTA BLUE GRASS STAKES

    Can 'Bear' keep beating odds?

    27-1 shot's trainer says he'll head to Churchill, cross his fingers

    By Rick Bailey

    The odds of 27-1 didn't faze trainer Reade Baker as his Kentucky Bear hurried his way around the Polytrack on Saturday at Keeneland.

  • BLUE GRASS STAKES
    1 - Monba; 2 - Cowboy Cal; 3 - Kentucky Bear

    Monba wins Blue Grass Stakes

    Trainer Pletcher on to Derby now after 1-2 finish

    By Alicia Wincze

    Todd Pletcher has regained his Kentucky Derby form in remarkable fashion. After being without a major contender on the Derby trail for most of the season, the Eclipse Award-winning trainer is once again in prime shape to have one of the favorites come Derby day after his duo of Monba and Cowboy Cal ran first and second, respectively, at Keeneland on Saturday.
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    » VIDEO: Blue Grass Stakes stretch run

  • Purchase could alter horse sales

    ONE OF KEENELAND'S TOP CLIENTS NOW ALIGNED WITH FASIG-TIPTON

    By Alicia Wincze

    Since Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum became a fixture in the thoroughbred marketplace during the early 1980s, he has altered the horse racing landscape in a way few could have imagined.

  • Day at the races

    Friday's figures: On-track attendance: 14,056; on-track betting: $1,635,739; total betting including simulcast: $9,141,082. This day last year: On-track attendance: 17,016; on-track betting: $1,996,216; total betting including simulcast: $11,534,034.

  • Routine repeat for Kip Deville

    FAVORITE CALLED 'BEST HORSE ON GRASS NOW'

    By Rick Bailey

    Trainer Rick Dutrow tried to give instructions to his jockey, Cornelio Velasquez, before the Maker's Mark Mile Friday. Velasquez interrupted him:

  • Ariege gets best of Golden Doc A again

    FILLIES DUEL FOR SECOND TIME IN POSSIBLE OAKS PREVIEW

    By Rick Bailey

    The gap is expanding between Ariege and Golden Doc A, a half-length last month and now a length, Ariege's margin of victory in the Grade II Stonerside Beaumont at Keeneland Thursday.

  • Novice owner keeps on Truckin'

    FEIN AND FRIENDS REV UP FOR BLUE GRASS

    By Maryjean Wall

    A dollar, a dream and America with all its opportunities put Eric Fein of Jericho, N.Y., right in the action for the $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes.

  • Day at the races

    Thursday's figures: On-track attendance: 8,726; on-track betting: $971,559; total betting including simulcast: $6,478,525. This day last year: On-track attendance: 7,683; on-track betting: $966,417; total betting including simulcast: $8,082,211.

  • 'Kentucky Bear' bargain at 50-1

    Even 10-1 odds too high for trainer

    By Maryjean Wall

    Watch out because this bear of a horse might grab you by surprise in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes. We refer to Kentucky Bear, at 50-1. Don't let the odds scare you. The jockey and trainer are amused at the morning-line number assigned to the Bear in a field of 12 drawn for Saturday and led by even-money favorite Pyro.

  • Ventura makes victory look easy

    FILLY GIVES GOMEZ HIS THIRD WINNER OF THE DAY

    By Maryjean Wall

    "Like found money," was how the winning connections congratulated themselves after Ventura won the $200,000 Grade II Vinery Madison Stakes Wednesday at Keeneland.

  • Day at the races

    Wednesday's figures: On-track attendance, 7,784; on-track betting, $875,434; total betting including simulcast, $6,465,260. This day last year: On-track attendance, 6,470; on-track betting, $872,712; total betting including simulcast, $7,204,370.

  • Don Gato brings top dollar

    $800,000 PRICE LEAVES 2-YEAR-OLD'S CAMP BITTERSWEET

    By Alicia Wincze

    In many ways, those familiar with the handsome Storm Cat colt entered in Keeneland's April 2-year-olds in training sale considered the youngster to be priceless. So even after watching the colt bring a sale-topping pricetag Wednesday evening, the mood in his camp was more bittersweet than celebratory.

  • Day at the races

    Sunday's figures: On-track attendance, 16,692; on-track betting, $1,148,543; total betting including simulcast, $8,198,528. This day last year: There are no comparative figures because the track was closed for Easter.

  • Day at the races

    Saturday's figures: On-track attendance, 23,895; on-track betting, $1,535,813; total betting including simulcast, $10,613,372. This day last year: On-track attendance, 12,937; on-track betting, $1,323,556; total betting including simulcast, $13,305,371.

  • Boss Lafitte pulls off wet upset

    KEENELAND OPENING DAY

    By Maryjean Wall

    Keeneland's spring meet opened Friday with a deluge of rain, more rain -- and a pirate wreaking an upset on the high seas. Boss Lafitte was a $21.20 winner of the $150,000 Grade III Central Bank Transylvania Stakes by half a length over Riley Tucker after rains forced Keeneland to move the race off the turf and onto the Polytrack.

  • Day at the races

    Friday's figures: On-track attendance, 11,561; on-track betting, $1,133,221; total betting including simulcast, $9,061,945. This day last year: On-track attendance, 16,587; on-track betting, $1,617,982; total betting including simulcast, $10,974,146.

  • Something old, new at Keeneland

    SPRING MEET OFFERS FRESH WAGERS TO GO WITH TRADITION-RICH RACING

    By Maryjean Wall

    "I hear the sound of rattling hoofs," a poet wrote about a mare, "Kentucky-born, Kentucky-bred," who ran and won the race of her life "with hurrying hoofs" and "flying feet."

  • Friday's Keeneland graded entries

    By Mike Battaglia

    Friday's Keeneland graded entries First post 1:15 p.m. (Horses listed in post position order with saddle-cloth number) 1$17,000, claiming ($10,000), 4-year-olds and up, 6 furlongs

  • KEENELAND

    Country star draws a crowd

    3-year-old filly provides buzz for 1st weekend

    By Maryjean Wall

    Country Star racing at Keeneland could be like Faith Hill, Shania Twain and Martina McBride sharing the main stage -- a big-ticket event on opening weekend.

  • NOTEBOOK

    Curlin captures respect of fans 'round the globe

    14 POINT HEAD LINE GOES RIGHT

    By Maryjean Wall

    What a horse, that Curlin. He crossed the finish line the winner of the $6 million Dubai World Cup on Saturday -- and prompted cheering and a lot of applause at Keeneland's simulcast.

  • THE DAY AT THE RACES

    By Maryjean Wall

    YESTERDAY'S FIGURES

  • CHELOKEE RULED OUT OF DERBY

    CHURCHILL DEALING WITH WAGERING ISSUES ONLINE AND ELSEWHERE

    Special to the Herald-Leader

    Chelokee, third-place finisher in the Florida Derby, will not run in the Kentucky Derby.

  • JADE'S REVENGE PULLS UPSET IN BEN ALI

    26-1 SHOT WINS BY A NOSE IN 2ND POLYTRACK STAKES VICTORY

    By Rick Bailey

    "I called that one, didn't I?" trainer Graham Motion said on his cell phone to one of the Bushwood Stables ownership team.

  • THE DAY AT THE RACES

    By Rick Bailey

    YESTERDAY'S FIGURES

  • THE DAY AT THE RACES

    By Maryjean Wall

    YESTERDAY'S FIGURES

  • SAFARI QUEEN REIGNS IN BEWITCH

    5-YEAR-OLD DEFEATS BARANCELLA BY TWO LENGTHS

    By Maryjean Wall

    Safari Queen, on a roll of winning races, left little doubt yesterday why she was champion filly at age 2 in Argentina.
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