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Qatar Racing, Marc Detampel, and Fergus Galvin’s New Year’s Eve gobbled up ground down the stretch and got by pacesetter For the Flag in the final strides to win Sunday’s sixth running of the $200,000 KY Downs Preview Ladies Turf Mile at Ellis Park. The race was one of four stakes on Day 2 of Kentucky Downs Preview Weekend.
Fans at Ellis Park were treated to a thriller on Saturday in the $200,000 KY Downs Preview Dueling Grounds Derby when favored Wadsworth overcame a troubled trip and held of late charges of Highway Robber and Anglophile to win his second consecutive stakes at 'the Pea Patch' in Henderson, Kentucky.