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Evangeline Downs Racetrack & Casino is a racetrack in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, just east of Opelousas. It is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming . With a one-mile oval track, the facility provides close to 1,000 horse stalls for Thoroughbred flat racing and American Quarter Horse racing.
The race was open to 20 horses, who qualified for the race by earning points on the 2023 Road to the Kentucky Derby. The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km) and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875. The purse for 2023 was US$3 million. [2] The race was won by Mage.
Churchill Downs 3 May 2024 La Troienne Stakes: I $1,000,000 4&up f&m 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles: Dirt Churchill Downs 3 May 2024 Kentucky Derby: I $5,000,000 3yo open 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles: Dirt Churchill Downs 4 May 2024 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes: II $569,770 3&up open 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs: Turf Churchill Downs 4 May 2024 Churchill Downs Stakes: I ...
Both horses finished behind winner Rich Strike, who had only entered the race after a late scratch. Entering the race at odds of 80–1, Rich Strike's victory was the second-largest upset in Derby history. It was the first Kentucky Derby victory for his trainer Eric Reed, as well as the first graded stakes win in any race for his jockey Sonny Leon.
The Dogwood Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies run over a distance of seven furlongs held annually in September at Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky.
The 2014 Kentucky Derby was the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby.The race was scheduled to start at 6:24 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on May 3, 2014, at Churchill Downs and was run as the eleventh race on a racecard with thirteen races. [2]
The Kentucky Derby is only open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds, [9] thus all entrants in the 2018 race were part of the 2015 North American live foal crop of roughly 22,000. [10] The field was limited to twenty horses who qualified based on points earned in the 2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby , a series of designated races that was first ...
The race took place on May 5, 2001. There was a crowd of 154,210 in attendance. The 127th Kentucky Derby was the first to be broadcast on NBC , garnering a Nielsen rating of 8.1.