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3 days ago | brisnet.com | James Scully

Saturday’s stakes action at Aqueduct (Belmont at the Big A meet) featured a pair of main track events for older horses, the $200,000 Ruffian (G2) for fillies and mares and $169,750 John A. Nerud (G3) for sprinters. A neck second in the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), Jody’s Pride hadn’t visited the winner’s circle since taking the Busher in her three-year-old opener, but the four-year-old filly got back on track in the Ruffian, surging to win the one-mile event by about a length.

4 days ago | brisnet.com | Kellie Reilly

Not only was multiple Grade 1 star Far Bridge the class of the short field in Saturday’s $388,000 Man o’ War (G2), but the 3-10 favorite also enjoyed a perfect trip at Aqueduct. That proved to be an unbeatable combination, as Far Bridge bested the hard-trying closer Anglophile. The top two are bred along the same exact lines. Both are by English Channel and out of mares by Kitten’s Joy – the champion turf males of 2007 and 2004, respectively, who together furnish quite a productive cross.

1 week ago | brisnet.com | Kellie Reilly

Saturday’s $934,200 Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic (G1) was an open-looking renewal on paper, and it remained so when most of the field fanned across the Churchill Downs course in a frenetic dash for home. Then 3.12-1 favorite Spirit of St Louis flew onto the radar late to win going away, giving his connections a Grade 1 turf double on Kentucky Derby Day. Trainer Chad Brown and two of his co-owners, Madaket Stables and Michael Dubb, earlier captured the American Turf (G1) with Zulu Kingdom.

1 week ago | brisnet.com | Vance Hanson

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Entering the 151st edition of the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) on Saturday at Churchill Downs, America's premier event had been virtually the one worldwide classic that had eluded Godolphin, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's international racing juggernaut.

1 week ago | brisnet.com | Vance Hanson

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Speed is traditionally dangerous over a wet track, and so it proved when Macho Music led throughout in the $539,500 Pat Day Mile (G2) on the Kentucky Derby Day program at Churchill Downs on Saturday. What made the 13-1 chance's tally even more impressive were the fractions he posted. Macho Music covered the opening quarter mile in :22.43, a half mile in :44.93, and began to edge clear after six furlongs in 1:09.66.