Harris to Return as Announcer at Emerald Downs
When Emerald Downs begins its 2024 season on Saturday, May 4, a familiar voice returns to the announcer's booth high atop the grandstand: Tom Harris.
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When Emerald Downs begins its 2024 season on Saturday, May 4, a familiar voice returns to the announcer's booth high atop the grandstand: Tom Harris.
Officials with Churchill Downs Inc. April 25 sounded a bit like a gift giver looking forward to the receiver's reaction as they discussed changes, centered on a $200 million new paddock, that await fans arriving Kentucky Derby week this year.
A look at where American classic contenders have been found at public auctions and their average price by horse type.
Mensa is stabled at Churchill Downs and will train each day at 9:10 am in a special saddle cloth. Prospective buyers can follow him back to Barn 36 post-training to inspect him.
Star router Next and the speedy No Nay Mets are among the top contenders in two of Churchill Downs' featured stakes races May 1 leading up to Kentucky Derby (G1) weekend.
Jevian Toledo, four-time leading rider at Laurel Park, had minor surgery to repair a dislocated collarbone suffered during a spill April 21.
Kentucky Derby (G1) favorites Fierceness and Sierra Leone will open as the second and third choices behind Muth in the Preakness Future Wager when the final pool opens April 26.
It will be a bittersweet day at Golden Gate Fields April 27 as the $175,000 San Francisco Mile Stakes (G3T) is slated to be the last stakes race everĀ held at the track that opened in 1941.
Ribble Farms, Michael Eiserman, Earl Silver, Kenneth Fishbein, and Dave Fishbein's Honor Marie drilled an eye-catching five-furlong bullet in :59 1/5 at Churchill Downs April 25, his final work before the May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1).
Juliet Kagno will serve as The Jockey Club steward for the remainder of Aqueduct spring meet and for the Belmont at the Big A spring/summer meet while Dr. Ted Hill will assume the steward position during the Saratoga summer meet.