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Kenneally Gets 1,000th Career Win With Victory At Ellis Park Sponsored by:
He s Pretty Lucky, with Brian Hernandez Jr. up, held off Stone Slinger to win Ellis Park s fifth race by a head and give trainer Eddie Kenneally his 1,000th career victory.
Some of the toughest victories to knock out seem to come during a countdown to a landmark. And when trainer Eddie Kenneally earned his 1,000th career victory Saturday at the RUNHAPPY Meet at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., his 3-year-old He s Pretty Lucky kept the outcome in suspense until right before the wire.
With jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. wearing Kenneally s navy silks emblazoned with a beige K, the newly gelded He s Pretty Lucky pressed front-running favorite Futuro before dispatching that rival late in the stretch. Just when Kenneally s milestone seemed in the bag, Stone Slinger loomed on the outside and appeared poised to go past before coming up a head short in the off-the-turn mile $10,000 maiden-claiming race. It was
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