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Saturday, May 18, 2024
Churchill Downs (Kentucky):
Cherie DeVaux and Brittany Russell won training contests this weekend at Pimlico. Prize money was distributed to trainers based on a point distribution as follows: To be eligible for the bonus, trainers had to run a minimum of five horses in the 15 stakes, eight graded, worth $4.3 million in purses offered during Preakness weekend. Points were accumulated for finishing first (10), second (seven), third (five), fourth (three) and fifth through last (one).
Stakes Races
Note: Larry Collmus's call of the Preakness may be his best. Maryland's track caller is consistently solid and has been for years.
Churchill Downs (Kentucky):
- Jose Ortiz rode four winners.
- Handle: $98 million which is the fifth highest handle in the track's history. 101 million+ is the high mark.
- Card: 14 races, five graded stakes.
- Jockeys With Multiple Wins: Sheldon Russell, Javier Castellano and Irad Ortiz, Jr. Luis Saez, who won once, placed with three straight mounts.
- Trainers With Multiple Wins: None.
- Race 3: Mirahmadi (Frankie Dettori/Bob Baffert), a $1.05 million purchase, was sent off the favorite but finished third behind the local formidable duo of Sheldon Russell (winner) and wife Brittany (placed) who opposed each other for a rare time.
- Race 4: Apple Picker (Sheldon Russell/Brittany Russell) won the $100,000 Skipat Stakes.
- Race 6: Frost Free (Irad Ortiz, Jr./Brett Creighton) won the Grade 3 $200,000 Chick Lang Stakes. Creighton celebrated a graded stakes for the first time in nearly 40 years of training.
- Race 7: Fluffy Socks (Irad Ortiz, Jr./Chad Brown) won the Grade 3 $100,000 Gallorette Stakes.
- Race 8: Super Chow (Javier Castellano/Jorge Delgado) won the Grade 3 $100,000 Maryland Sprint Stakes.
- Race 9: Fulmineo (Flavien Prat/Arnaud Delacour) won the $100,000 James Murphy Stakes.
- Race 10: Corporate Power (Javier Castellano/Shug McGaughey) won the $100,000 Sir Barton Stakes. Connections of the third place horse lodged an objection but after an inquiry the original order was maintained. The toip three finishers were separated by mere inches.
- Race 11: Grooms All Bizness (Jorge Ruiz/Jorge Duarte, Jr.) won the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint.
- Race 12: Balnikhov (Frankie Dettori/Phil D'Amato) won the Grade 3 $500,000 Dinner Party Stakes.
- Race 13: Seize the Grey (Jaime Torres/Wayne Lukas) won the $2,000,000 Grade I Preakness Stakes in its 149th edition. The winner was sent off 9-to-1. Seize The Grey, a son to the awesome Arrogate, entered off a win two weeks ago at Churchill Downs, is 10 4-0-4 lifetime but a potent 3 2-0-1 on off tracks. The $300,000 investment has $1.8 million in career earnings. Torres was the youngest rider in the race. Lukas was the most seasoned trainer in the race at the age of 88. Lukas has won 15 Triple Crown races (4 KD, 7 Preakness, 4 Belmont) and his first since the 2013 Preakness.
Cherie DeVaux and Brittany Russell won training contests this weekend at Pimlico. Prize money was distributed to trainers based on a point distribution as follows: To be eligible for the bonus, trainers had to run a minimum of five horses in the 15 stakes, eight graded, worth $4.3 million in purses offered during Preakness weekend. Points were accumulated for finishing first (10), second (seven), third (five), fourth (three) and fifth through last (one).
Stakes Races
- Cherie DeVaux 34 points worth $50,000
- Steve Asmussen 30 points worth $25,000
- Mike Trombetta 28 points worth $12,000
- Brittany Russell 23 points worth $7,000
- Graham Motion 19 points worth $4,000
- Wayne Lukas 16 points worth $2,000
- Brittany Russell 48 points worth $25,000
- Kieron McGee 25 points worth $10,000
- Graham Motion 23 points worth $7.500
- Anthony Aguirre, Jr. 15 points worth $4,000
- Anthony Farrior 14 points worth $2,500
- Mike Trombetta 13 points worth $1,000
Note: Larry Collmus's call of the Preakness may be his best. Maryland's track caller is consistently solid and has been for years.
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