Space Mountain back – as outrider pony

By Jennie Rees Space Mountain, third in the 2019 Tapit Stakes, is back at Kentucky Downs. Not as a racehorse, having retired two years ago after 56 starts, 10 wins and $441,227 in earnings. Rather, the 11-year-old Space Mountain is outrider Trey Miller’s faithful pony, working double shifts during both morning training (every day) and … Continued

ESPN 680 Preview 9-11a CT Thurs

        LOUISVILLE’s ESPN 680/105.7 KY Downs Preview Show 9-11Am CT Thursday Louie Rabaut is hosting the third annual Kentucky Downs Preview show on Louisville’s ESPN 680/105.7 Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. CENTRAL. The show broadcasts live from the Blind Squirrel restaurant and sports bar in Middletown in eastern Jefferson County. … Continued

Introducing FanDuel TV U.S. Open Turf Championships (Sept. 7)

FRANKLIN, Ky.(Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024) — The inaugural FanDuel TV U.S. Open Turf Championships will play out at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 7, featuring six graded stakes on grass offering $2 million apiece for Kentucky-breds. Five of those winners could have their entry fees paid to the corresponding event at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships … Continued

Cumberland Run opens to rave reviews

CORBIN, Ky. — The biggest winner on Cumberland Run’s inaugural 10-race harness program Sunday was the track itself, according to those in attendance as live horse racing came to southeastern Kentucky for the first time. “I think the track is great,” said Hall of Fame driver David Miller, who won three races, including the first … Continued

Tanya Tucker is 2023 KY Downs guitar trophy icon

FRANKLIN, Ky. (Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023) — The guitars that serve as trophies for the FanDuel Meet at Kentucky Downs’ nine graded stakes are autographed by Tanya Tucker, who earlier this year was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In the four years since Kentucky Downs first awarded a George Strait-signed guitar as the inaugural … Continued

Keeneland offers LEX to KY Downs charters Sept. 7, 9, 10 and 13

Photos courtesy Triton Airways FRANKLIN, Ky. (Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023) — The most lucrative seven days in American racing overlap the most important yearling sale in the world, with the FanDuel Meet at Kentucky Downs staged 170 miles from the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Now Keeneland is offering a way to be at both venues … Continued

DG Derby winner Kitodan resumes racing in KD Preview Turf Cup

Grace Clark photo: Kitodan winning last year’s Dueling Grounds Derby at Kentucky Downs. Video interview with Eric Foster and Kitodan HENDERSON, Ky. — Trainer and co-owner Eric Foster had to regroup last year when Churchill Downs’ canceled its Grade 2 Secretariat Stakes. Plan B was running his $80,000 claim Kitodan against older horses in Ellis … Continued

Kentucky Downs lands 13 horses in Breeders’ Cup

(Photo: Gear Jockey, in the lead on the rail under Jose Lezcano, won the $1 million FanDuel Turf Sprint to earn a fees-paid spot in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint Saturday at Del Mar. Coady Photography) FRANKLIN, Ky. (Tuesday, November 2, 2021) — Thirteen horses who competed at the FanDuel Meet at Kentucky … Continued