A catastrophic equine injury to the trailing runner in the third race at Presque Isle Downs on Tuesday hospitalized a jockey with multiple broken bones and required the euthanization of a 5-year-old mare who unseated him after she “took a bad step” at the quarter pole, according to the Equibase chart of the race. The

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Second in this same race one year ago, Tawny Port (Pioneerof the Nile) stepped up to go one better Wednesday, stretching out from the GI Christope Clement Turf at 1 1/2 miles to win the marathon 2 1/16-mile Marsh McLennan Bowling Green Gold Cup Invitational Stakes. A true war horse who has contested six straight

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Pounded into 4-5 favoritism for the final stakes race of the meeting at Kentucky Downs, WinStar Farm's Kentucky Belle (f, 3, Justify–Dancing Fancy, by Tiznow) was forwardly placed throughout the running of Wednesday's GIII Dueling Grounds Oaks Invitational Stakes and ran away from her overmatched rivals to score by the better part of a half-dozen

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How's Al Today became the first two-time winner of the 2026 Kentucky Downs meet on Wednesday's closing day, taking the Pepsi Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile Stakes just 11 days after he won a restricted allowance race going 6 1/2 furlongs Aug. 29. That start, his first on the turf, came after a third-place finish in

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Gerry Duffy has had a lot of important jobs in horse racing, but now he has landed what he calls his “dream” job. Duffy was named President of WinStar Farm Apr. 1, and is set to formally take over as CEO and President when Elliott Walden steps down Oct. 1. Why the dream job? Because

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