Thorpedo Anna won the 150th Kentucky Oaks by 4 lengths by beating favorite Just F Y I on a rainy Churchill Downs on Friday night. Regulator finished third.
Thorpedo Anna came out with odds of 4-1. Named after a local swimmer from Louisville. She is trained by Kenneth McPeek and ridden by Brian Hernandez. It’s the first Oaks win for McPeek, a local from Lexington, Kentucky.
Thropedo Anna won his last two races at the end of 2023 at Churchill Downs and Keeneland.
It rained intermittently that day at Churchill Downs, resulting in a very sloppy track. The fact that Just F Y I won on a failed track made her the favorite in the betting of the day.
A winning $2 bet on Thorpedo Anna paid $10. 98. A trio of $0. 50 that predicted a final 5-13-4 order yielded $448. 58.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For now, the rain on Churchill Downs is subsiding and the skies appear to be clearing a bit. There’s still a 35% chance of more rain and a thunderstorm this afternoon ahead of the 150th edition of Kentucky Oaks.
The time is 5:51 p. m. And.
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Owner: Six Column Stables LLC, Randall L. Bloch, Jim Gladden, Mike Davis and Michael Steele
Coach: Ian Wilkes
Rider: Julien Leparoux
Morning Line Odds: 30-1
Bred by the country’s number one stallion, Into Mischief, and bred by a racing champion mare, this chestnut filly has made her most productivity running shorter distances, not winning in races longer than a mile. Admittedly, the longer runs were opposites. to tougher competition, some of which he’ll face on Friday, but the nine stadiums at Oaks make me think. Wilkes doesn’t see horses just for fun, which might warrant a second look, and he has a win in an off-roader. , but I’ll be by his side later this year.
Owner: Aaron Sones, Julie Gilbert and Harrison Sones
Coach: Mr. Wayne Lukas
Jockey: Keith Asmussen
Morning Line Odds: 30-1
Now 88 years old, master D. Wayne Lukas first won this race in 1982, and has won it four times since then, most recently in 2022. Her jockey here is 63 years younger and earned her first graduate stakes win over this filly in the Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn Park in February. This race is also the filly’s first win in six starts, so she deserves her prestige here, and she’s already been beaten by some of her rivals here, but if this master/jockey combination takes the lead if she wins, she’ll be the sensation of the day.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The two riders injured in a stroke Thursday have been released from the hospital, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. Irving Moncada and Emmanuel Giles were taken by ambulance after a fall Thursday afternoon.
Moncada’s agent told the newspaper that Moncada lost consciousness in the spill and only regained it at the University of Louisville Hospital. After a series of tests, he was discharged Thursday night.
Giles injured his shoulder and spine and is awaiting X-rays and other tests, according to the report.
The two horses, Territoriality and Vostra, were wounded.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. –It’s time to dig for the mud. The forecast here for today’s race schedule, adding Kentucky Oaks, calls for steady rain, which will make the track a factor. Tarifa, the morning favourite, won its first classics on a muddy track, and Just FYI, another favourite, made its debut on a track.
The gloomy weather, while far from ideal for Oaks Day fashionistas, could help the runway. Many other people in the back were complaining about the harshness of the track after days of hot, dry weather here, and the staff had to act like polo players. , replacing clods of dirt on the grass, after Thursday’s first grass-court race.
Owner: Brookdale Racing, Mark Edwards, Judy Hicks and Magdalena Racing
Coach: Ken McPeek
Jockey: Brian Hernandez Jr.
Morning Line Odds: 5-1
McPeek bought this filly for $40,000 when she was a year old and stayed on as a wife, a pretty smart decision in hindsight, considering she earned about $600,000 in four races, racking up three wins and a second-place finish. Breeder Judy Hicks also bought it. After promoting it at an auction. Thorpedo Anna has a flexible taste for running and runs lightly, he hasn’t done any damage so far. She doesn’t like rainy tracks, which may just be one factor, but in the unlikely event that the track stays dry and fast, she’s in the mix.
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Owner: Klaravich Stables Inc.
Coach: Chad Brown
Jockey: Jose Ortiz
Morning Line Odds: 20-1
Second of several full-length Where’s My Ring in the Gazelle, this $235,000 one-year acquisition has a win to its name, that of a muddy inaugural race at Aqueduct. She’s putting Ortiz, who won this race in 2019, in the saddle for the first time. and his affinity for off-road racing will give him advantages, however, the last time he chased Where’s My Ring?and how both fillies did the best they could. At the front, they will have to improve to beat their opponents on Friday.
Owner: Michael McMillan
Coach: Val Brinkerhoff
Jockey: José Lezcano
Morning Line Odds: 15-1
Horses trained by Californian master Val Brinkerhoff are not unusual in prestigious races and, until about a month ago, it seemed unlikely that he would compete this weekend. Where’s My Ring lost its first run by the nose, and as a child, it entered. in two graded stakes races, adding the Breeders’ Cup Tier 1 junior fillies, severely squandering both races. After a remote position at Level 3 Santa Ysabel, Brinkerhoff sent her east to the Level 3 Gazelle Stakes at Aqueduct, where he took her. first win and sealed his spot at the start gate in Oaks. Nice story for the coach if she wins.
Owner: Ferme Calumet
Coach: Brad Cox
Rider: Florent Géroux
Morning Line Odds: 30-1
The first of the two, coached by Brad Cox, was voted the Eclipse Award Outstanding Coach in 2020 and 2021. She won the Busanda Stakes at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens and finished third in two other prep races at Oaks there; It’s worth checking out given the forecasts, given that his only two wins have come on rainy tracks, I’d be hesitant to put him in the most sensible of your messages.
On an unusually summery Sunday morning, six days before 20 horses strayed from the start gate of the 150th and colorful Kentucky Derby, the deceased rests virtually unperturbed in Cave Hill Cemetery.
The massive cemetery, 10 miles from Churchill Downs, is the first stop in a series of six other people on a very special race day. Kentucky loves to celebrate the wonderful messengers who have made their Commonwealth famous. The Secretariat is immortalized in a park in Paris. , Kentucky, and Barbarian, the Derby winner who fought valiantly after breaking his leg in the Preakness, is remembered in front of Churchill Downs, where his remains are buried. Aristide, the first Derby winner, is commemorated in bronze in the Churchill paddock, and farther out in Lexington, Alysheba takes bronze at Kentucky Horse Park, War Admiral at Faraway Farms and Seattle Slew at Hill ‘N Dale.
But to notice the true roots of the Kentucky Derby — the other people who started, captured, and continued it — you need to know where the bodies are buried.
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The Ghosts of the Kentucky Derby: From Lewis and Clark to the Race’s Near Disappearance
Amy Seiler is sitting in a café, flipping through a catalog and talking about a headless horseman. The decapitated horseman in question wasn’t chasing the culture’s Ichabod crane; rather, he was hunched over his horse in search of an invisible finish line. Etched into the look of a glass in 1956, thanks to a production error at the factory that didn’t give the boy his dome, the headless jockey turned a souvenir into a precious product.
When the Kentucky Derby came, the bird and the egg came together. Noticing visitors donning their ornamental glasses after race day in 1938, Churchill Downs wisely in 1939 created (and sold) commemorative glasses, opting to fill the boxes with his favorite libation: the mint julep. It’s not so unexpected that beverage sales skyrocketed and a culture was born, in a race already steeped in culture.
Each Derby is now commemorated in a uniquely designed tumbler that has one requirement: a list of all previous winners. For most people, glass is a trinket to display on a bar shelf, but the combination of rarity and rarity has also created a demand among niche collectors.
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It’s a cool, sunny morning in late March, 40 days before the Kentucky Derby.
I’m in a small studio in midtown Manhattan, in a showroom filled to the brim with homemade hat tricks. One of the projects on the agenda this week: a hat that requires 150 homemade silk roses, one for each year of uninterrupted celebration of the Kentucky Derby. History. Each rose is cut and sewn separately here on site.
“So far we’ve made roses,” says Carol Sulla, Christine A. ‘s director of operations and sales. Moore Millinery.
This leaves “only” 106 roses to be sewn before the first Saturday in May.
Christine Moore is the woman who wears many of the most coveted Derby hats. He began his career working on Broadway exhibitions before opening his own store and focusing on hat making. Moore was the first star hatter of the Kentucky Derby and won the “Kentucky Colonel” assignment from Gov. Andy Beshear in 2022.
Celebrities who have worn her hats are A-list (Katy Perry and Jennifer Lopez are among her many clients) and Moore’s hats have been featured on shows like Gossip Girl, Nashville, and The Carrie Diaries. During the Derby hat season, which begins in January or so, they will be shipping more than 1,000 hats, all designed and manufactured right here in this small studio.
And now I’m here for my Derby hat.
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Armed with a frame hat and a tour guide, The Athletic took a personal excursion to the new Churchill Downs paddock in February, and got a first look at the redesigned area that racing enthusiasts will enjoy starting this weekend. It is, in a word, monstrous. The area that was once 5,000 square feet has expanded to 12,000 people, with more seating and a balcony with a view, for starters.
Costing an estimated $200 million and completed in one year, the renovation is a much-needed reboot of a popular race-day collection position, and especially on the first Saturday in May. On the day of the Kentucky Derby, the old paddock was packed with participants who were there to watch the races on the giant boards, watch the horses in the stalls, or just watch other people. It was tricky to maneuver and occasionally there were so many people that it was hard to see the genuine horses.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs’ genuine business is a far cry from colorful hats and the best rollers. In the rear, where the horses are housed in their stables, lives and works a colorful network populated by other little-known people who are a must-have tool for the majesty of the Kentucky Derthrough. Here, walkers, grooms, and staff bathe and care for the horses, keep the barns tidy, and make sure that the famous animals and their equally famous human running shoes can take care of winning. racing. More than 1,000 more people are offered on the site.
The back is original and practical. Old washers and dryers were installed outside the barns, next to bicycles randomly placed in front of the stalls: the former to clean the multitude of appliances needed by the horses, the latter to send other people to work.
Many other people live on site and ask for accommodation in the apartments near the barns. Larry Demeritte, whose West Saratoga horse has a 50-1 record, began his career as a groom and lived in Churchill for two years. It offers some of life’s must-haves. Chaplains have long been a mainstay of Kentucky’s trails, and in 2006, Churchill opened Christ Chapel. The chapel offers weekly Bible studies.
The rink kitchen is right next to the chapel and serves cafeteria-style meals from 6 a. m. to 6 a. m. m. , as the horses prepare for their morning workouts, until 2 p. m. m. Es cheap, fast, convenient and has wonderful views. The windows give a view of the road from the side of the lane.