Eleven starters in Rum Fire Jamaica Oaks – I Am Di One draws 11 – check Overnight on Quickgallop.com
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Overnight entries for Saturday’s Oaks Day (May 4) was just released by the promoting company. In the feature race, the Rum Fire Jamaica Oaks run over 10-furlongs for three-year-old fillies only, 11 runners have been declared with hot odds-on favourite I Am Di One getting the number 11 draw with Simon […]
Baffert takes aim at record-tying 6th Kentucky Derby win
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The pain of seeing Cavonnier get beat by a nose in his first Kentucky Derby nearly kept trainer Bob Baffert from returning to Churchill Downs. He figured he would never again have a horse good enough to win on the first Saturday in May. A year later, though, he won the […]
Superstar Irish jockey Ruby Walsh retires from horse racing
PUNCHESTOWN, Ireland (AP) — Irish jockey Ruby Walsh has retired from horse racing, ending a career in which, he had more than 2,500 winners and earned more successes at the Cheltenham Festival than any other rider. The 39-year-old Walsh made his decision after riding Kemboy to a two-length victory at the Punchestown Gold Cup on […]
Jon Court, 58, would set Kentucky Derby record as oldest jockey
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jon Court would set a record as the oldest jockey in the Kentucky Derby when he rides Long Range Toddy this weekend. Court is 58, which is a lot of candles on the birthday cake for someone still participating in an incredibly dangerous sport. Churchill Downs officials say the current record […]