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Arklow and jockey Joel Rosario winning the Hollywood Gold Cup
Donegal Racing, Joseph Bulger and the Estate of Peter Conway s Grade 1-winning turf specialist Arklow is set to return from a nearly six-month break in Saturday s 84th running of the $150,000 Louisville Stakes (Grade 3) at Churchill Downs.
Saturday s Louisville Stakes, run at 1 ½ miles on the Matt Winn Turf Course, is the featured event on the 11-race program. First post is 12:45 p.m. (all times Eastern) and the Louisville will go as the finale at 5:58 p.m. A simulcast of the $1 million Preakness Stakes (G1) – the second leg of horse racing s Triple Crown – follows at 6:47 p.m.
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Champion Vequist Tops 106 Early Nominees To Kentucky Oaks Sponsored by:
Vequist, with Joel Rosario aboard, winning the Juvenile Fillies
Champion 2-year-old filly Vequist, winner of the $2 million Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies (Grade 1), tops the roster of 106 early nominations to the $1.25 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1), North America s premier race for 3-year-old fillies that will be staged at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. on Friday, April 30.
Owned in partnership by Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Swillcan Stable and trained by Butch Reid Jr., Vequist was a dominant two-length winner of the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies. The daughter of Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist is based at Palm Meadows in South Florida and is entered in Saturday s $200,000 Davona Dale (G2) at Gulfstream Park.