Ed Derosa

In a move that makes Mike Repole Churchill Downs Inc.'s second-largest individual investor, the entrepreneurial owner-breeder announced Thursday on X that he bought 1 million shares of company stock over the past four days, a stake he put at close to 1.5% of the Louisville-based company.

Trainer Joe Sharp found the Goldilocks zone for Carl Moore's Lambeth, who found the 1 1/2-mile Sycamore Stakes on Friday at Keeneland Race Course "just right" after races of 1 1/16 and 2 1/16 miles this summer at Kentucky Downs.

A baker's dozen remain under consideration for the Breeders'Cup Classic on Oct. 31 at Keeneland, but the true complexion of the race won't be known until trainers make their final declarations.

Nearly 20% of the entrants in the Pick 5 on Tuesday at Parx Racing are first-time starters, but don't let that deter you from playing the mandatory payout sequence with a pool that should approach a quarter-million dollars.

Hughes had not even run his undefeated streak to four when there already were whispers that U. S.S. Valor, winner of the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes, likely would skip the Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Oct. 30 at Keeneland.

Part of me wonders whether trainer Brad Cox can believe Deep Flame got beat in his first two starts, but the Juddmonte homebred son of Into Mischief has blossomed into potentially the second-best sprinter of his generation.

The 12-race Maryland Million card on Saturday at Laurel Park attracted 150 entries, a 12% increase from last year when 134 horses entered Maryland's richest day of racing outside of Preakness Stakes week.

West Virginia regulators are investigating who had access to veterinary tech Noelani Jensen's InCompass account following an alert from The Jockey Club of "excessive use of a log in."

Barbadian Runner has gone from the hunter to the hunted in the Maryland Million Classic

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