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The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held each year in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, at the end of the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. It is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km), and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875.
In 2017 the event was won by the five-year-old Irish bred mare Zhukova who started as the 9/10 odds-on favorite and set a new stakes winning margin by 6 lengths over Taghleeb in a small field of five starters in a time of 2:25.31 on a yielding track in rainy weather. [16]
Quick Call was a dual winner of the GII Forego Handicap, lived to the age of 35 and is buried at Clare Court in Saratoga Springs. [3] The 2010 running was on the Inner Turf course at a distance of 1 mile. [1] In 2019 the event was upgraded to Grade III. [4] The race was run on the main track in 2023 and was subsequently downgraded to a Listed ...
2017 American Anthem: Mike E. Smith: Bob Baffert: WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, SF Racing & Head of Plains Partners 7 furlongs 1:22.02 $100,000 III [8] 2016 I Will Score Martin Garcia: Jerry Hollendorfer: Hans Poetsch 7 furlongs 1:21.30 $100,690 III [9] 2015 Kentuckian Mike E. Smith: Jerry Hollendorfer: Fox Hill Farms 7 furlongs 1:20.97 ...
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Charismatic (March 13, 1996 – February 19, 2017) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the first two legs of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1999. Early in his career, Charismatic was entered in claiming races but he improved rapidly during his three-year-old year.
This event is named for Forego, the American Horse of the Year for three straight years between 1974 and 1976. [1]The event was inaugurated on 27 August 1980, Opening Day of the Belmont Park Fall meeting for that year over a distance of one mile with handicap conditions and was won by Tanthem who was ridden by United States' Racing Hall of Fame jockey Jorge Velásquez in a time of 1:35 flat. [2]
The Troy Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and older over the distance of 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs on the turf scheduled annually in August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.