Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Groupie Doll not only won the Grade 2 Humana Distaff on Saturday in a runaway, she broke the track record for a seven-furlong race. She stopped the timer in 1:20.44, besting the old mark of 1:20.50 set by Alanna on Derby Day 2001. That was same year that Monarchos ran a sub-two-minute race to win the Derby. Look out folks, this track is juiced.

Mildly Offensive got away the quickest,…

Bob Hill
Staff Writer
Tracksideview.com

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Hungry Island showed explosive speed down the stretch in the one-mile Grade 2 Distaff Turf Mile when overtaking Tapitsfly and favored Marketing Mix on Saturday at Churchill Downs. 

The four-year-old bay filly is owned by Emory A. Hamilton and trained by Shug McGaughey.  Hungry Island turned the tables on Marketing Mix who had bested here last month in an allowance race at Keeneland and last fall in the Grade 2…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Shackleford proved that home cooking is best when he outgamed California invader Amazombie by a length to win Grade 2 Churchill Downs on Saturday under the Twin Spires.

Churchill Down-based trainer Dale Roman sent out the son of Forestry for his first win since taking the 2011 Preakness at Pimlico in Baltimore, Md. That was eight

Travers Manley
Churchill Downs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Houyhnhnm Stable’s Great Attack surged past favored  Bridgetown in deep stretch to win the 18th running of the $150,350 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Presented by GE Appliances (Grade 3) by a three-quarters of a length, the first of six stakes on the Kentucky Derby Day card.

Trained by Wesley Ward and ridden by Joel Rosario, Great Attack had finished fourth in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G2) here in his lone…

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Silver Max jumped to the lead out of the gate in the Grade 2 American Turf and never gave it up in the 21^st running of the race Friday at Churchill Downs and came home the winner by two lengths in front of Travel Advisory. Howe Great was third and Finnegans Wake.

The race was marred when jockey Javier Castellano fell from Star Channel coming off the second turn. Castellano lay motionless on the track for…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Successful Dan kept up the theme of Friday afternoon when he set a stakes and track record in winning the 9^th running of the Alysheba at Churchill Downs. The son of Successful Appeal covered the mile-and-a-sixteenth race in 1:41.04.

Successful Dan, under Julien Leparoux, battled Fort Larned down the length of the stretch to pull away in the final few strides to win by one length. Post-time favorite, Mucho Macho…

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Stephanie’s Kitten tuned up for Royal Ascot and set a stakes record in the process when she won the 27^th running of the Edgewood on Friday at Churchill Downs. The daughter of Kitten’s Joy covered the mile-and-a-sixteenth turf affair in 1:40.94.

Owner Ken Ramsey said a “Queen’s representative called and invited us to Royal Ascot.”

Stephanie’s Kitten kept up her part of the bargain as she beat 26-1 shot Firehouse Red by two lengths. Longtime…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Contested wasn’t as she ran away in the end to win the 57^th running of the Eight Belles in stakes-record time of 1:21.29 on Friday at Churchill Downs. The 3-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper ran her record to three wins in four starts and all of her wins have been runaways.

Good Deed was the quickest out of the gate in the seven-furlong race and had the lead as the field…

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Juanita stalked pacesetter Plum Pretty through early moderate fractions and then pulled away inside the quarter-pole to upset the 4-5 favorite in the 27^th running of the La Troienne at 17-1.

Plum Pretty showed the way out of the gate in the mile-and-one-sixteenth race with Juanita sitting coolly in second a little more than a length back. Jockey Rafael Bejarano looked to have things under control with Plum Pretty until they neared the quarter-pole.

Juanita…

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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — A drop out of graded company proved the winning move for Hard to Resist in the $57,700 feature Thursday at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Nearly six weeks after finishing seventh of 10 in the Grade II Santa Ana Stakes at Santa Anita, Hard to Resist, who trailed after the opening half mile, collared pacesetter Let’s Go Cheyenne in the closing yards for her third career victory.

Owned by a partnership that includes Sharon Alesia,…