Colonel Liam, Domestic Spending Dead-Heat In A Turf Classic Thriller Sponsored by:
Domestic Spending (outside) and Colonel Liam hit the wire together in the Turf Classic
A pair of Grade 1-winning 4-year-olds – Colonel Liam from the barn of Todd Pletcher and the Chad Brown-trained Domestic Spending – hit the wire together in Saturday s Turf Classic Stakes at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., producing the first dead-heat in the 35-year history of the Grade 1 grass fixture run immediately prior to the Kentucky Derby.
Colonel Liam, ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., seized command from front-running Smooth Like Strait in the final sixteenth of a mile in the nine-furlong race, but Flavien Prat and Domestic Spending were in full flight after boring through a narrow opening in mid-stretch and switching to the outside. Domestic Spending was gaining ground with every strike and just caught Colonel Liam when the photo finish camera clicked at the wire. Time of the race on a firm tu
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Guide to Saturday s two 2021 Kentucky Derby preps
Guide to Saturday s two 2021 Kentucky Derby preps Photo:
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Moments after
Greatest Honour drew off Jan. 30 to win the Holy Bull Stakes (G3), trainer Shug McGaughey remarked that “the pressure begins now.”
That pressure continues Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where Greatest Honour leads a field of 10 into the $300,000
Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2). Post time for the 1 1/16-mile event is scheduled for 6:10 p.m. EST. He ran awfully well, he’s trained well since then, so this is just another step, McGaughey told Carolyn Greer this week in
The Fountain of Youth pays its winner 50 Kentucky Derby points, enough to essentially clinch a spot in the starting gates for the First Saturday in May. McGaughey is no stranger to using the race as a springboard to Churchill Downs.