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2021 MEDIA GUIDE
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4 Senior Leadership
at Kentucky Downs
6 A History of Kentucky Downs
8 2021 Stakes Schedule
Media: 11 2020 and All-Time Leading Kentucky
Downs: Owners, Jockeys, Trainers
Thank you for your interest in Kentucky Downs and America’s most unique race meet. Please reach out to our publicity team if
18 Track Records
you have questions, need media access, photos, help setting up an interview, story ideas or anything we can to do assist you.
To request photos: Contact track photographer Coady Photography at ky@coadyphotography.com, Jennie Rees or Grace Clark. 19 Racing Officials and General
Information
For HHR information: Contact director of marketing John Wholihan at johnwholihan@kentuckydowns.com or Jennie Rees.
20 Stakes History
The Kentucky Downs 20201media guide was produced by Kentucky Downs’ marketing and publicity team. Cover design: Grace
Clark. Design: Grace Clark. Written content: Jennie Rees. Statistical information compiled from Equibase and Kentucky Downs 54 G1-winning #KyDownsGrads
data.
57 The Impact of Historical Horse Racing
Photos by Grace Clark unless otherwise noted to be taken by Coady Photography.
Live Racing Publicity Team: 58 A Day at Kentucky Downs
Jennie Rees—Publicity Director, jennierees@kentuckydowns.com
Grace Clark— Social Media Coordinator/photographer, graceclark@kentuckydowns.com
Allie Sclafani - Acting Director of Live Racing Marketing, allie@metricalconsulting.com
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KENTUCKY DOWNS
Racing Leadership
Ted Nicholson
Marc Falcone Vice President of
Ron Winchell
Co-Managing Racing
Co-Managing
Partner Partner
The Winchell name is immediately recogniz- Winchell Thoroughbreds also was a breeder of Marc Falcone brings significant finan- Ted Nicholson has been a behind-the-scenes
able in racing circles. Ron Winchell oversees Grade 1 winner Paddy O’Prado.
August 2020. “As Ron and I conceptualized difference-maker throughout his career in horse
cial and gaming experience to Kentucky
his family’s Winchell Thoroughbreds, a high- what the next phase of expansion would racing. In his first four years at the helm oversee-
Downs, having been a top casino execu-
end racing and breeding operation located on “Some of my fondest early memories are of be, it was really taking the next step into ing the Kentucky Downs operation, betting on
tive and leading financial analyst before
his 320-acre Corinthia Farm near Lexington, visiting racetracks with my father, and thor- creating that broader entertainment Historical Horse Racing at the facility increased
teaming with Winchell to form Kentucky
Ky., that currently owns more than 120 horses, oughbred racing has been a passion of mine destination. We’re going to increase food from $349 million in 2015 to $1.12 billion (the vast
including racing and breeding stock._ ever since,” Winchell said when the intent to Racing Acquisition LLC.
and beverage offerings, increase enter- majority of which is returned to players) in 2019,
purchase Kentucky Downs was announced tainment offerings, more live music - just
The Winchells were co-owners of 2017 Horse in November 2018. “As such, I am personally Falcone served as executive vice president, an increase of more than 300 percent. Betting on
a better experience. It’s going to be much the track’s live race meet went from $16.88 mil-
of the Year and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner thrilled to be carrying our family name into chief financial officer and treasurer of
more exciting, much more fun, much lion for five days in 2015 to $59,828,441
Gun Runner, now a stallion at co-owner Three this exciting opportunity to take the reins of Red Rock Resorts Inc. and Station Casinos
Chimneys Farm. The Winchells bred and Kentucky Downs, one of American racing’s
more higher energy — and taking into ac- for six days in 2020, up 255 percent.
from 2011 to 2017. His investment busi-
raced Untapable, the 2014 Kentucky Oaks and great success stories of the past decade. This count the great history that the track has
ness background includes Goldman Sachs
Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner and represents the first step in our plan to further always had in this community. A native of Arlington Heights, Ill., and graduate
& Co., where he focused on restructuring
champion 3-year-old filly, and campaigned advance racing and HHR (historical horse of the University of Arizona’s Racetrack Indus-
transactions in the hospitality and gaming
Gainesway Farm’s world-renowned sire Tapit, racing) in the Commonwealth.” “This sits in an ideal location, 30 minutes try Program, Nicholson was assistant general
in whom they still owns 50-percent interest. sectors; Magnetar Capital, and Deutsche
outside of Nashville, an exploding popu- manager at Arlington Park when the new facility
“Kentucky Downs is one of horse racing’s Bank Securities Inc., where as managing
lation getting close to two million peo- opened in 1989 after the track burned in 1985. He
Winchell also operates the Jackpot Joanie’s brightest success stories of this era,” he said director he was recognized as one of the
ple. We said, ‘Hey, this is 300 acres of an was vice president of operations at Suffolk Downs
chain of gaming-bar outlets, three locations upon the closing of the sale in March 2019. gaming, lodging and leisure industry’s top
opportunity to do much more than racing from 1991-1998 during the Boston track’s renais-
of Winchell’s Pub & Grill as well as The Gin “We are committed to increasing that trajec- analysts.
Mill and Golden West Restaurant and Casino tory and are looking at options for expanding
and historical horse racing. There are op- sance that saw Cigar twice win the Massachusetts
throughout Greater Las Vegas and elsewhere and improving the overall guest experience. portunities for much broader things with Handicap.
"The previous owners were visionaries
in Nevada. He also is involved in construction We very much look forward to working with the real estate we have here long term.
who saw the potential of Historical Horse
and real-estate development. local and state officials, the Kentucky Horse We looked at this as a 10- year project to Nicholson returned to Arlington Park under its
Racing as an industry game-changer,”
Racing Commission and our sister tracks encompass how to maximize and create a Churchill Downs Inc. ownership as vice president
Ron Winchell is the son of the late Verne in Kentucky for the betterment of the com- Falcone said upon the closing of the sale
destination here in Franklin, Ky.” of operations for the suburban Chicago track
Winchell, founder of Winchell’s Donuts monwealth’s signature industry. As I told the in March 2019. “They demonstrated not
empire, later the CEO and chairman of the racing commission, I have spent my entire life only the financial promise of Kentucky before being sent to New Orleans as vice presi-
Denny’s restaurant chain and a noted horse around horse racing, and that passion will be Downs but showed how it could be used dent and general manager of the Fair Grounds
owner and breeder who died in 2002 at age a backdrop for every decision we make.” to strengthen the entire Kentucky racing Race Course & Slots and its 10 OTB facilities in
87. Jackpot Joanie’s are named for Winchell’s circuit and turn Kentucky Downs into a the wake of Hurricane Katrina. After oversee-
mom, Joan, his partner in Winchell Thorough- major economic engine for the region. ing that massive restoration process, Nicholson
breds and Verne’s widow. Ron Winchell’s pas- reorganized Calder Race Course in 2008-2009
Our focus will be to continue Kentucky
sion for racing is a tribute to Verne Winchell’s before leaving horse racing to be the first general
commitment to and history in Kentucky horse
Downs’ financial success and commitment
to the Kentucky racing industry. We’ve manager of Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center, open-
racing and breeding.
been working hard, and the future looks ing that state-of-the-art sports and concert facility
Through the years, Winchell family runners very promising.” to great reviews.
also have included champions Tight Spot and
Mira Femme and the accomplished runners “Kentucky Downs has had a great history
2012 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tapizar, here, going back to when it was origi-
2005 Kentucky Oaks winner Summerly, Tapi- nally called Dueling Grounds,” Falcone
ture, Pyro, Zanjero, Donut King, Olympio, Sea
told the gathering at the November 2019
Cadet, Fleet Renee, Valiant Nature and more
recently Finite, 2021 Metropolitan Mile winner
ground-breaking for an ambitious, multi-
Silver State and Preakness runner-up Mid- phased expansion and renovation project,
night Bourbon, a leading 3-year-old of 2021. the first phase of which was completed in
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KENTUCKY DOWNS
History in the Making
Sept. 13, 2018 — A total of $7,021,553 is wagered on a Thursday, a record for a Kentucky Downs’ closing day and sending wagering on the fi-
Sept. 22, 1826 — The most famous duel to be held on the future site of Kentucky Downs came after Tennessee Congressman Sam Houston ve-date meet to $36,421,722 — a 20-percent increase over the 2017 record of $30,246,888. Purses total a record $10,233,665.60, not including the
unsuccessfully opposed the appointment of a Nashville publisher to the role of Nashville Postmaster. When Houston returned home from Washin- $2.9 million in purse money and Kentucky-bred supplements transferred to Ellis Park and $500,000 apiece to Churchill Downs and Keeneland in
gton, he was promptly challenged to a pistol duel at 15 paces by Gen. William White, a professional duelist standing in for the postmaster, who agreements with horsemen and the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
felt his reputation had been besmirched. Houston gravely wounded White, who eventually recovered. Houston became governor of Tennessee
the next year and went on to lead the Texas revolution, becoming president of the Republic of Texas and then senator and governor after Texas Nov. 13, 2018 — Noted horseman and Las Vegas-based entrepreneur Ron Winchell and prominent gaming executive Marc Falcone announce an
became a state. agreement to buy all the assets of Kentucky Downs for an undisclosed amount.
April 22, 1990 — Lexington horseman Bradley “Mike” Shannon’s Simpson County Steeplechase Association holds a one-date meet with both Nov. 30, 2018 — The Franklin-Simpson Stakes for 3-year-olds is awarded Grade 3 status for 2019, giving Kentucky Downs five graded stakes out
steeplechase and flat racing, headed by the $750,000 International Hurdle, the world’s richest jump race. The 1 5/16-mile turf course had been laid of its 12 stakes that are eligible to be graded by the American Graded Stakes Committee.
down on gently rolling farmland on the Tennessee border and a colonial-style clubhouse built for a total of about $8 million. The track is named
Dueling Grounds in a shout-out to the property's early 19th Century heritage as a place for gentlemen to resolve differences with a duel, which Dec. 31, 2018 — Kentucky Downs concludes 2018 with total wagering of $814,541,369 on Historical Horse Racing for the year, an increase of
was outlawed in Tennessee but legal in Kentucky. A total of $270,627 is wagered on that inaugural four-race card. After a couple of years, Dueling 26.25 percent over the record $645,176,291 in 2017.
Grounds ditches its initial steeplechase focus for flat racing and adds more dates. The track also becomes mired in financial, legal and political
problems. March 2019 — The partnership headed by Ron Winchell and Marc Falcone officially take possession of Kentucky Downs.
Oct. 11, 1992 — Dueling Grounds moves to the fall for its third one-date meet. Subsequent race meets, ranging from four to nine days, are held Sept. 7, 2019 — Michael Hui’s Zulu Alpha captures Kentucky Downs’ first $1 million race, the Grade 3 Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup, over
in September. 2018 winner Arklow. Totally Boss wins the $700,000, Grade 3 RUNHAPPY Turf Sprint (formerly the Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint), the first Breeders’
Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series race in track history. A record $11,321,492 is wagered on the 10-race card.
Feb. 1, 1995 — Shannon sells controlling interest in Dueling Grounds for $4.3 million to Earl and Rita Sinks’ newly formed Heirloom Music
Corp. based in Nashville. Sept. 12, 2019 — The RUNHAPPY Meet at Kentucky Downs concludes its five-date meet again breaking wagering records, with betting from all
sources totaling $41,239,699, up 13.2 percent over 2018. Kentucky Downs sets a record for each of the meet’s corresponding dates, including the
Aug. 30, 1996 — The Kentucky racing commission shuts down the track after Dueling Grounds fails to set aside the money to pay the $2 million $7,280,542 bet on the closing card. Money paid out to horse owners totals a record $11,520,380, for an average of $230,407 per race. Also in 2019,
in purses for the 1996 meet. another $5 million in purses and Kentucky-bred supplements generated at Kentucky Downs is transferred to Ellis Park in agreements with horse-
men and the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
1996 and 1997 — No racing is held.
Oct. 29, 2019 — Kentucky Downs is awarded a sixth racing date for 2020, allowing for the track to run more than five days for the first time since
July 17, 1997 — Dueling Grounds sells for $11 million in federal bankruptcy court in Louisville to a partnership headed by Turfway Park and 2008.
Churchill Downs, with other investors including Brad Kelley, the self-made billionaire entrepreneur who grew up in Simpson County; Lexington
attorney and developer Brent Rice, and a private investment concern that includes Outback Steakhouse founder and CEO Chris Sullivan. The Dec. 31, 2019 — Kentucky Downs finishes the year with a record total of $1,120,153,954 wagered on Historical Horse Racing, an increase of 38
name is changed to Kentucky Downs to emphasize being part of the Kentucky racing circuit and to shed the unfavorable association to the track’s percent.
former self. Turfway Park manages the track.
March 19, 2020 — With the COVID-19 virus pandemic, Churchill Downs postpones the Kentucky Derby until Sept. 5 in an agreement with Ellis
Sept. 23, 2001 — The $300,000 Kentucky Turf Handicap (now the Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup) at 1 1/2 miles becomes the first graded Park. Kentucky Downs agrees to give up its scheduled opening day, Wednesday, Sept. 2, to Churchill Downs, with Kentucky Downs’ new dates for
stakes to be run in track history, having been afforded Grade 3 status by the American Graded Stakes Committee. 2020 becoming Sept. 7 (Labor Day), 9, 10, 12, 13 and 16.
Oct. 19, 2004 — Brad Kelley becomes Kentucky Downs’ majority owner, in part by exchanging $3.2 million in Churchill Downs stock for most June 10, 2020 — Kentucky Downs reopens for Historical Horse Racing and simulcasting after being closed almost three months.
of the Louisville track’s stake in Kentucky Downs.
Aug. 18, 2020 — Kentucky Downs announces that because of COVID-19 restrictions and outbreaks, spectators would not be permitted at the
March 22, 2007 — The pending sale of 85-percent interest in Kentucky Downs to a partnership headed by investment banker Ray Reid and for- race meet, with attendance limited to horsemen and their guests.
mer Lone Star Park president Corey Johnsen is announced with Brad Kelley, Churchill Downs and Turfway staying in for 5 percent each. The sale
closes that summer before the live race meet. The new partnership ultimately buys out the previous owners’ minority shares. Sept. 1, 2020 — Kentucky Downs holds a ribbon-cutting ceremony and Grand Opening of its new 30,000 square-foot expansion to celebrate the
rebranding of the gaming side into The Mint Gaming Hall.
July 14, 2011 — The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission approves Kentucky Downs’ request to implement Historical Horse Racing machines,
which employ cutting-edge technology to marry electronic gaming with the parimutuel wagering system that is a linchpin of American racing. Sept. 12, 2020 — A track-record $17,437,731 is wagered on Kentucky Downs’ 11-race card, headlined by Arklow taking the $1 million Calumet
The track projects that purses will rise from $150,000 a day at the meet to $250,000 in 2012. Turf Cup for the second time in three years.
Sept. 2, 2011 — Kentucky Downs launches Historical Horse Racing (at the time known as Instant Racing) with 200 terminals. The average purse Dec. 18, 2020 — Kentucky Downs receives its first and second stakes to be elevated to Grade 2 status, with the $1 million Calumet Turf Cup and
at the live-race meet is $25,660. $600,000 Franklin-Simpson for 3-year-olds elevated from their Grade 3 rating. The Tourist Mile (renamed the WinStar Mint Million for 2021) is
awarded Grade 3 status for the first time, giving Kentucky Downs
Sept. 19, 2012 — In its first meet with purse money generated by Historical Horse Racing, Kentucky Downs closes out five days of racing paying
out an average of $417,330 a day and $48,527 per race. Dec. 31, 2020 — Even being shuttered almost 25 percent of the year, The Mint Gaming saw $925,811,173 wagering in 2020 on historical horse
racing.
Sept. 9, 2017 — The Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf and Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint are run as Grade 3 races for the first time. A then-track-record
$8,487,323 is wagered. April 6, 2021 — Kentucky Downs announces it will have three $1 million races for the first time, adding the $1 million FanDuel Turf Sprint (G3)
and $1 million WinStar Mint Million (G3) to the $1 million Calumet Farm (G2).
Sept. 8, 2018 — Kentucky Downs breaks the $10 million mark in handle for its 10-race card, with betting totaling $10,039,008. The Kentucky
Downs Ladies Sprint is run as a Grade 3 race for the first time, one of four graded stakes on the card.
Sept. 12, 2018 — $7,313,857, then the third-highest in track history is bet on a Wednesday, a card postponed from Sunday after significant rain
hit the region.
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2021 STAKES SCHEDULE
Sunday, September 5
Saturday, September 11
The Exacta Systems Dueling Grounds Oaks (listed)
1 5/16 miles • $500,000 • $250,000 from KTDF • Three year old fillies The Calumet Turf Cup* (GII)
1 ½ miles • $1,000,000 • $450,000 from KTDF • Three year olds and up
The Big Ass Fans Dueling Grounds Derby (listed) *Win and You’re In Breeders’ Cup Turf Division
1 5/16 miles • $750,000 • $375,000 from KTDF • Three year olds
The FanDuel Turf Sprint* (GIII)
6 furlongs • $1,000,000 • $450,000 from KTDF • Three year olds and up
Monday, September 6 *Win and You’re In Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint Division
The Aristocrat Juvenile Fillies (listed) The Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf (GIII)
1 mile • $500,000 • $250,000 from KTDF • Two year old fillies 1 mile • $750,000 • $375,000 from KTDF • Fillies & mares three years and up
The Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile (listed) The Mint Ladies Sprint (GIII)
1 mile • $500,000 • $250,000 from KTDF • Two year olds
6 ½ furlongs • $600,000 • $300,000 from KTDF • Fillies & mares three years and up
The WinStar Mint Million (GIII)
1 mile • $1,000,000 • $450,000 from KTDF • Three year olds and up The Franklin-Simpson Stakes (GII)
6 ½ furlongs • $600,000 • $300,000 from KTDF • three year olds
Wednesday, September 8
Sunday, September 12
The TVG Stakes (listed)
1 mile 70 yards • $400,000 • $200,000 from KTDF • Three year olds and up
The Kentucky Downs Ladies Marathon (listed)
1 5/16 miles • $550,000 • $250,000 from KTDF • Fillies & mares three years and up
Thursday, September 9
The Untapable Stakes (black type)
The Global Tote Juvenile Sprint (listed) 6 ½ furlongs • $500,000 • $250,000 from KTDF • two year old fillies
6 ½ furlongs • $500,000 • $250,000 from KTDF • Two year olds
The Nelson's Green Brier Whiskey Music City Stakes (black type)
The One Dreamer Stakes (listed) 6 ½ furlongs • $500,000 • $250,000 from KTDF • three year old fillies
1 mile 70 yards • $400,000 • $200,000 from KTDF • Fillies and mares three years and up
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LEADING LEADING LEADING
JOCKEY TRAINER OWNER
Kentucky
Downs 2020 Tyler Gaffalione, one of American Mike Maker, already the track’s all- Three Diamonds Farm’s father-son
Meet Leaders racing’s rising stars, added his first
Kentucky Downs riding title with 11
-time win leader, earned a record fifth
meet training crown with eight vic-
team of Kirk and Jordan Wycoff are East
Coast guys, but trainer Mike Maker has
victories. That was five wins more than tories out of a meet-high 56 starters, increasingly convinced them to make
two-time defending titlist Jose Ortiz including four wins on one card. That Kentucky Downs a priority in addition
and his brother, reigning Eclipse Awar- nipped Wesley Ward’s seven wins out to Saratoga. The payoff was their first
Golden Voice wins the fourth race on September 12th for 2020 meet leading d-winning jockey Irad Ortiz. of 31 starts, denying Ward his own fif- Kentucky Downs owner’s title in 2020
jockey Tyler Gaffalione, owner Three Diamonds Farm, and trainer Michael Gaffalione ended the meet with a th title. with four victories out of 12 starters,
Maker.
bang, his three wins on the closing with a second and two thirds.
card capped by Guildsman’s victory in “It was a good meet, deep and com-
Rank Jockey Name Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Total Purse Money the Grade 3 Franklin-Simpson Stakes petitive,” Maker said. “Like everything Three Diamonds is named for Kirk
in his final mount of the meet. The else, wish we’d won a few more but and Debra Wycoff’s three children: Kir-
jockey also won the $500,000 Mint Ju- that’s racing. Always fun to come here by, Ashley and Jordan.
1 Tyler Gaffalione 45 11 9 8 $1,622,961 venile Fillies (now the Aristocrat Ga- and to do well. We have so many turf
ming Juvenile Fillies) aboard Plum Ali horses. It’s nice that when we can get Kirk Wycoff is managing partner of
T2 Jose Ortiz 38 6 6 3 $827,365 and the $500,000 Real Solution Ladies an abundance of them in on any given the Philadelphia-based private equity
Sprint (now the $600,000 The Mint La- day and know we’re coming over here firm Patriot Financial Partners. Jordan
T2 Irad Ortiz Jr. 30 6 5 3 $1,241,620 dies Sprint) with Got Stormy. live.” Wycoff is Three Diamonds’ managing
“This was incredible. This is such a partner. The Wycoffs started their ra-
3 Gerardo Corrales 28 5 2 2 $455,450 fun place to ride,” said Gaffalione, the Maker now has won 63 races in his cing operation in the Mid-Atlantic with
2015 Eclipse Award-winning apprenti- career at Kentucky Downs. His four- Maryland-based trainer Michael Trom-
ce jockey. “I always enjoy coming here -year streak of meet titles ended last betta in the mid-2000s. Kirk Wycoff in-
every year. All the credit goes to my year when his three wins were one creased his racing stable after teaming
Rank Trainer Name Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Total Purse Money agent (Matt Muzikar). He’s really done shy of sharing the crown with Ward, in 2010 with Maker, to whom he was
a great job getting ready for this meet. Joe Sharp and Ian Wilkes. But even attracted because of the trainer’s abi-
1 Michael Maker 55 8 7 8 $823,321 He told me we were really loaded. I just in 2020, when he had a track-record lity to claim horses and turn them into
had to show up and get the job done. A 15 seconds, he won the money title at stakes winners. That includes Bigger
2 Wesley Ward 30 7 5 5 $975,175 lot of credit goes to all the horsemen $1.4 million. Picture, claimed for $32,000 in 2015
who got the horses ready. Hopefully we and an eventual Grade 1 winner and
3 Steve Asmussen 34 4 2 5 $582,296 can do it again next year.” Noting that the seconds and thirds $1.66 million-earner who finished a
Gaffalione, who turns 27 on Sept. 12, can be lucrative at Kentucky Downs, close second in Kentucky Downs’ 2018
also earned the jockey money title at Maker said, “For sure. Pays a lot of Calumet Turf Cup.
Rank Owner Name Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Total Purse Money $1,619,461. bills.”
“We always want to be leading rider, Paulick Report’s Chelsea Hackbarth
but the main thing is they give away This year Maker finished fourth in reports that Kirk Wycoff took riding
1 Three Diamonds Farm 12 4 1 2 $260,000 so much money so you try to get the money ($823,321), with that title won lessons as a young man in Pennsylva-
money title here more than anything,” by four-time Eclipse Award-winning nia and acquired his training license at
T2 Breeze Easy, LLC 3 2 1 0 $594,000 Gaffalione said. “But it’s always great trainer Chad Brown at $980,375. Penn National as a hobby during colle-
to get as many wins as possible. Great ge — including mucking out 40 stalls
T2 Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey 15 2 2 1 $297,035 venue, great racing here. Lot of class every morning before heading to class.
horses showed up.” Debra Wycoff, whom Kirk met through
T2 Marc Detampel 3 2 1 0 $205,000 racing 44 years ago, continues to ride
horses and is an amateur show-jum-
T2 Paradise Farms Corp. & David Staudacher 8 2 0 1 $118,950 per.
T2 Cundiff Racing, LLC 2 2 0 0 $48,000
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Leading Jockey
Meet by Meet Leaders
FLAT RACING ONLY,
UNLISTED YEARS MEAN LEADERS ONLY WON ONE RACE
YEAR JOCKEY MOUNTS 1ST EARNINGS
2020 TYLER GAFFALIONE 45 11 $1,622,961
2019 JOSE ORTIZ 33 10 $2,053,366
2018 JOSE ORTIZ 31 9 $1,285,081
2017 JULIEN LEPAROUX 29 6 $1,116,210
2016 FLORENT GEROUX 46 12 $1,767,821 Brian Hernandez has won 51 of 302 mounts and earned $3,624,636 in purses at Kentucky Downs since first riding at the track
in 2004. A Louisville-area resident, Hernandez won the 2008 and 2012 Kentucky Downs riding titles. He has seven Kentucky
2015 FLORENT GEROUX 28 12 $1,180,286
Downs stakes wins: 2019 Old Friends (Get Western), 2018 Franklin-Simpson (Angaston), 2017 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf
2014 JULIEN LEPAROUX 32 7 $554,288
(Lull), 2016 Exacta Systems Juvenile Fillies (Lull), 2013 KD Juvenile (Boji Moon), 2012 Franklin-Simpson (Depeche Chat), 2006 Ya-
ROSIE NAPRAVNIK 26 7 $469,524 qthan (Tolhwin Type). Hernandez won the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic aboard Fort Larned. He was the Eclipse Award winner as
2013 ROSIE NAPRAVNIK 30 8 $428,702 outstanding apprentice jockey in 2004, when he rode at Evangeline and Delta Downs at nights during the week and at Churchill
2012 BRIAN J. HERNANDEZ, JR. 27 7 $289,309 Downs on weekends until graduating from high school in Lafayette, La., after which he began riding full time in Kentucky. Her-
2011 GRETA KUNTZWEILER 17 3 $136,652 nandez won the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic aboard Fort Larned, who the previous year won a Kentucky Downs allowance race.
ORIANA ROSSI 16 3 $57,542
MARCELINO PEDROZA, JR. 19 3 $47,955 Pictured: Lull winning the 2017 Ladies Sprint Stakes
JOHN MCKEE 8 3 $41,527
All-Time Leading Jockeys at Kentucky Downs/Dueling Grounds
2010 TONY FARINA 19 4 $95,096
JESUS L. CASTANON 10 4 $62,927
2009 ORLANDO MOJICA 15 5 $86,471
Placing Name Starts Wins Seconds Thirds Earnings
2008 BRIAN J. HERNANDEZ, JR. 18 5 $83,580
2007 LARRY J. STERLING, JR. 26 10 $180,766 1 Brian Hernandez Jr. 302 51 35 40 $3,624,636
2006 LARRY MELANCON 15 5 $210,745
2005 CALVIN BOREL 19 4 $140,492
2004 RAFAEL BEJARANO 35 12 $298,390
2 Florent Geroux 235 44 32 20 $7,795,190
2003 BRICE BLANC 23 5 $136,320
2002 JON COURT 30 6 $153,776 3 Julien Leparoux 253 42 44 23 $5,845,169
2001 JON COURT 30 6 $345,177
2000 JUSTIN J. VITEK 32 7 $106,763
1999 JON COURT 30 7 $232,808
4 Calvin Borel 293 39 35 38 $1,547,591
MARLON ST. JULIEN 35 7 $177,632
1998 ROBBY ALBARADO 25 6 $132,387 5 Larry Melancon 248 38 37 32 $1,253,754
JOSEPH DEEGAN 23 6 $97,803
1997 NO MEET 6 Jose Ortiz 128 30 19 10 $4,895,536
1996 NO MEET
1995 PATRICK A. JOHNSON 13 6 $132,717
7 Robby Albarado 235 29 25 29 $3,020,704
1994 TERRY J. THOMPSON 32 5 $91,949
DONNA M. BARTON 23 5 $88,145
1993 FABIO A. ARGUELLO, JR. 41 9 $118,095 8 James Graham 330 26 45 37 $2,563,547
1992 FABIO A. ARGUELLO, JR. 4 2 $113,500
9 Tyler Gaffalione 145 25 23 20 $4,385,286
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Leading Owners
Meet by Meet Leaders
FLAT RACING ONLY,
UNLISTED YEARS MEAN LEADERS ONLY WON ONE RACE
YEAR OWNER STARTS 1ST EARNINGS
2020 THREE DIAMONDS FARM 12 4 $260,000
2019 BLOOM RACING STABLE 3 2 $519,700
JIM AND SUSAN HILL 5 2 $509,018 Ken and Sarah Ramsey of Nicholasville, Ky., have won nine Kentucky Downs owner titles dating to 2009, including a record
STONESTREET STABLE 2 2 $441,750 nine wins at the 2013 meet. The winningest owners in the history of Kentucky racing, the Ramseys have won 47 races out of
BRAD GRADY 4 2 $149,074 195 starters and $4,197,574 in purses at Kentucky Downs. The Ramseys won the Eclipse Award as North America’s outstanding
2018 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 17 3 $639,260 owner in 2004 (when they campaigned the male turf champion and future leading turf sire Kitten’s Joy), 2011, 2013 and 2014 and
2017 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 17 4 $842,580
were voted outstanding breeder in 2013. They led North America in earnings in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Kentucky Downs stakes
2016 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 15 6 $801,110
wins: 2020 Tapit Stakes (Ramsey Solution), 2018 KD Juvenile Turf Sprint (Moonlight Romance), 2017 Kentucky Turf Cup (Oscar
2015 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 20 4 $201,360
2014 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 14 4 $264,993
Nominated), 2017 Ramsey Farm (Kitten’s Roar), 2017 Old Friends (Sir Dudley Digges) 2016 More Than Ready Mile (Watchyou-
2013 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 25 9 $536,213 rownbobber), 2016 Dueling Grounds Derby (Oscar Nominated), 2016 KD Ladies Marathon (Al’s Gal), 2013 KD Juvenile Fillies
2012 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 8 1 $70,523 (Lien On Kitten), KD Turf Dash (Longhunter), Franklin-Simpson Mile (Coalport), 2011 Franklin-Simpson Mile (Cozy Kitten),
2011 JANIS R. WHITHAM 3 2 $35,500 2001 Pleasant Temper (Silent Emotions), 2001 (Karly’s Harley).
2010 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 8 3 $44,437
2009 KENNETH L. & SARAH K. RAMSEY 4 2 $28,300 Pictured: Oscar Nominated winning the 2017 Kentucky Turf Cup
2008 CYNTHIA KNIGHT 3 3 $84,100
2007 DAVID A. ROSS 12 5 $66,699
2006 JOHN EATON & STEVE LAYMON 3 1 $21,020
All-Time Leading Owners at Kentucky Downs/Dueling Grounds
MELNYK RACING STABLES, INC. (EUGENE MELNYK) 3 1 $17,400
2005
LARRY SPIEGLER
JONATHAN DEAN
2
5
1
2
$14,200
$25,369
Placing Name Starts Wins Seconds Thirds Earnings
2004 STAN E. FULTON 3 2 $30,500
CAROLYN K. FRIEDBERG 2 2 $17,400
FRED A. NEMANN 2 2 $15,000 1 Kenneth and Sarah 195 47 34 16 $4,197,574
2003 TEAM VICTORY, II (SHIRLEY CUNNINGHAM,
WILLIAM GALLION, & RICK PITINO)
3 2 $106,000 Ramsey
2002 JACK MURPHY & PAM SLAUGHTER
BILL HAYES & TOM O’GRADY
2
2
2
2
$143,200
$40,200
2 G. Watts Humphrey Jr. 102 13 10 13 $1,258,249
RICHARD BOWERSOCK 2 2 $20,400
2001
RANDY L. KLOPP
GLEN HILL FARM (LEONARD H. LAVIN)
2
6
2
4
$20,400
$90,200
3 Silverton Hill LLC 70 10 7 8 $715,083
2000 WAYNE BEARDEN, JULIE S. SIZEMORE, & DAVE P. ENGLAND 4 2 $22,800
1999 ALDILA FARMS 4 2 $30,838
EVERGREEN FARMS 2 2 $21,600 4 Three Diamonds Farm 47 9 6 8 $1,294,560
1998 G. WATTS HUMPHREY, JR. 2 2 $28,800
1997 NO MEET
1996 NO MEET 5 David A. Ross 20 8 4 1 $117,754
1995 RHONDA JOHNSTON AND JENNIFER BROWN 2 2 $32,280
6 Augustin Stable 35 7 6 8 $1,069,088
MRS. JAMES A. WINN 2 2 $17,340
1994 SHARON HILD 10 2 $23,625
NEIL L. PESSIN 2 2 $19,800
TONY SCHULER 2 2 $16,200
1993 DONALD E. HUGHES 2 2 $15,810
CONWAY & HILLERICH RACING & LTB INC. 2 2 $14,570
SANDRA CLARK & PAM MCCARDELL 2 2 $14,260
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Leading Trainers
Meet by Meet Leaders
FLAT RACING ONLY,
UNLISTED YEARS MEAN LEADERS ONLY WON ONE RACE
YEAR TRAINER STARTS 1ST EARNINGS
2020 MICHAEL J. MAKER 55 8 $823,321
With eight wins out of 55 starters, Mike Maker earned his fifth training title in 2020 to go along with his record four straight
2019 IAN WILKES 14 4 $720,240
crowns, 2015-2018, to further stamp himself as Kentucky Downs’ all-time leader with 63 victories out of a record 356 starters for
WESLEY WARD 15 4 $623,962 purse earnings of $8,259,886. That includes winning the track’s signature Calumet Turf Cup three times as part of his record 13
JOE SHARP 19 4 $384,414 Kentucky Downs stakes victories. The title streak ended in 2019 when Maker won three races but had a record 14 seconds out of
2018 MICHAEL J. MAKER 44 9 $1,436,418 48 starters. However, one of those wins was the $1 million Kentucky Turf Cup with Michael Hui’s Zulu Alpha. Maker, the son of
the late Michigan-based trainer George Maker, trained in 1993 but didn’t resume his own stable until 2003 following a long stint
2017 MICHAEL J. MAKER 46 8 $1,529,053
working for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Maker has earned a reputation for claiming horses and turning them into
2016 MICHAEL J. MAKER 35 8 $1,469,336 graded-stakes winners, especially going longer distances on turf. Pre-2019 Kentucky Downs stakes wins: 2018 KD Juvenile (Hen-
2015 MICHAEL J. MAKER 28 8 $700,740 ley’s Joy), 2017 Kentucky Turf Cup (Oscar Nominated), 2017 KD Turf Sprint (Hogy), 2017 Ramsey Farm (Kitten’s Roar), 2017 Old
2014 WESLEY A. WARD 14 7 $417,741 Friends (Sir Dudley Digges), 2016 Kentucky Turf Cup (Da Big Hoss), 2016 More Than Ready Mile (Watchyourownbobber), 2016
2013 WAYNE M. CATALANO 15 10 $576,537 Dueling Grounds Derby (Oscar Nominated), 2016 KD Ladies Marathon (Al’s Gal), 2016 Dueling Grounds, 2015 Kentucky Turf Cup
(Da Big Hoss), 2013 KD Turf Dash (Longhunter). Most of his wins have been for major clients Ken and Sarah Ramsey, Michael
2012 GEORGE R. ARNOLD, II 15 3 $130,447
Hui, 2020 leading owner Three Diamonds Farms and Skychai Racing.
2011 IAN R. WILKES 5 2 $35,695
2010 WESLEY A. WARD 8 3 $55,227 Pictured: Da Big Hoss winning the 2016 Kentucky Turf Cup
2009 TODD A. PLETCHER 8 5 $78,367
2008 WESLEY A. WARD 15 4 $53,960
All-Time Leading Trainers at Kentucky Downs/Dueling Grounds
2007 DANIEL M. SMITHWICK, JR. 15 6 $78,399
2006 ERIC R. REED 12 4 $66,490 Placing Name Starts Wins Seconds Thirds Earnings
2005 WILLIAM I. MOTT 10 5 $100,315
2004 W. ELLIOTT WALDEN 8 3 $42,050 1 Michael Maker 356 63 45 47 $8,259,886
2003 KENNETH G. MCPEEK 11 4 $138,170
2002 THOMAS M. AMOSS 13 3 $101,960
2 Wesley Ward 175 39 25 26 $4,423,750
2001 THOMAS F. PROCTOR 6 4 $90,200
2000 HAL R. WIGGINS 5 3 $47,450
3 Bill Mott 180 27 28 22 $3,107,176
KENNETH G. MCPEEK 5 3 $43,150
1999 W. ELLIOTT WALDEN 4 3 $123,800
1998 PAUL J. MCGEE 5 3 $43,600 4 Kenny McPeek 153 26 24 22 $1,804,169
1997 NO MEET
1996 NO MEET 5 George Arnold III 159 23 21 20 $2,142,209
1995 KENNETH G. MCPEEK 10 3 $58,367
1994 LYNN S. WHITING 6 3 $40,559
1993 BERNARD S. FLINT 21 4 $60,955
1991 JONATHAN E. SHEPPARD 2 1 $51,750
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KENTUCKY DOWNS
KENTUCKY DOWNS Racing Staff and Officials
TRACK RECORDS
Senior Management
Why There Are No Course Records at Kentucky Downs at This Time
Ron Winchell — Managing Partner
Marc Falcone — Managing Partner
Kentucky Downs is not designating course records at this time because a new GPS
Ted Nicholson — Vice President of Racing
timing system installed last year and a new rail system put in this year that renders ir-
relevant previous race-time comparisons. The 1 5/16-mile course was placed down in
a field in 1990 when Kentucky Downs opened as Dueling Grounds as predominantly a Racing Operations
steeple-chase course. Kentucky Downs’ race distances have been measured the most
Tyler Picklesimer — Racing Secretary
accurately for this meet of any time in track history. Also, the gate placement is changing Tiffany Bourque — Assistant Racing Secretary
for some races with the new rail system. Therefore, 2021 will be the baseline year going Rick Hammerle — Horsemen’s Relations/Racing Operations
forward for course records. Raymond “Butch” Lehr — Track superintendent
John Wholihan — Marketing Director
Jennie Rees — Publicity Director
Allie Sclafani - Acting Director of Live Racing Marketing
Grace Clark — Social Media Coordinator and Racing Assistant
Chris Sandefur — Mutuels Manager
Susie Perry — Horsemen’s Bookkeeper
Coady Photography — Track Photographer
Kentucky Downs 2021 race meet
Sept. 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12
First race: 12:20p.m. Central
General admission: free
General parking: free
Online ticket office for reserved seating: kentuckydowns.com/tickets (available in late spring).
Check back for final details about seating options
Kentucky Downs hours: Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-5 a.m. CT; Friday-Sunday 24 hours (opening at 9 a.m.
Friday and closing 3 a.m. Monday) for HHR gaming.
Check for simulcasting schedule.
America's Most Unique Racemeet
Totaled a record $59,828,441 in all-sources wagering on 2020’s six-date meet, averaging $9,971,407 per day
while spanning 62 races.
Paid out record $11,668,473 in purses in 2020, for $1,944,745 in average daily purses, highest in world
outside of Japan.
Raced five graded stakes and 16 stakes spread over six days.
Averaged 10 horses per race, among the highest in North America. Stakes averaged 10.25 horses per race.
Paid out $750 to every horse finishing sixth through 12th (will be $1,000 in 2021).
Kentucky Downs for the first time utilized Equibase Co.’s Gmax timing and tracking system based on
GPS technology, which along with additional high-definition cameras made the broadcast viewing of
races much better. Previously, all of Kentucky Downs’ races were hand-timed.
MEDIA GUIDE 18 MEDIA GUIDE 19CALUMET KENTUCKY TURF CUP (G2) STAKES HISTORY
1 1/2 MILES | THREE YEAR OLDS AND UP | $1,000,000 | GRADE III Year Horse | Age | Owner Jockey | Weight | Time | Purse | Second Place |
Payout Trainer Condition | Mar- Third Place
HIGHEST PAYOFF gin
— $121.20 Rumor Has It, 2008 2020 Arklow | 6 | $5.80 Donegal Racing Florent Geroux | 2:28.66 | $1,000,000 | Red Knight | Zulu
LLC, Joseph Bulger, 122 | Brad Cox soft | 1 1/4 lengths Alpha
LOWEST PAYOFF Peter Coneway
— $3 Da Big Hoss, 2016 2019 Zulu Alpha | 6 | Michael Hui Jose Ortiz | 123 | 2:28.62 | $1,000,000 | Arklow | Campaign
$6.20 Mike Make firm | 3 1/4 lengths
LARGEST WINNING MARGIN
— Silverfoot 6 3/4 lengths, 2005
2018 Arklow | 4 | $15.80 Donegal Racing Florent Geroux | 2:30.56 | 1/2 length | Bigger Picture | Soglio
SHORTEST WINNING MARGIN LLC, Joseph Bulger, 123 | Brad Cox good | $750,000
— nose - Silver Medallion 1991; Embossed 2006; Suntracer 2014 Peter Coneway
2017 Oscar Nominated | 4 Ken and Sarah Julien Leparoux | 2:31.37 | head | firm | Postulation | Muqtaser
RACE KNOWN AS | $9.40 Ramsey 121 | Mike Maker $600,000
- Sam Houston (1990-1995), Kentucky Cup Turf (1998-2012), Kentucky Turf
Cup (2013-2015), Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup (2016 - present), earned 2016 Da Big Hoss | 5 | $3 Skychai Racing Florent Geroux | 2:35.08 | 1 1/4 Bullards Alley | Rum
GIII status in 2001, GII status in 2020 125 | Mike Maker lengths | yielding | Tug Tugger
$600,000
2015 Da Big Hoss | 4 | Skychai Racing Joe Rocco | 123 | 2:33.40 | 2 lengths | Power Ped | Roman
$10.60 Mike Maker good | $600,000 Approval
2014 Suntracer | 6 | $17.40 Team Block Florent Geroux | 2:27.1 | neck | firm | Pyrite Mountain | War
121 | Chris Block $600,000 Dancer
2013 Temeraine | 4 | $6.40 Niall Racing Gary Stevens | 121 | 2:29.19 | neck | firm | Olympic Thunder |
Tom Proctor $400,000 Suntracer
2012 Ioya Bigtime | 5 | Team Block Jeffrey Sanchez | 121 2:30.06 | 1/2 length | Rahystrada | Kinder-
$6.40 | Chris Block firm | $200,000 garten Kid
2011 Rahystrada | 7 | Robert Courtney Jr. Greta Kuntzweiler | 2:32.40 | 3 3/4 Odds On | Miami Deco
$3.60 120 | Byron Hughes lengths | firm |
$150,000
2020 STAKES RECAP | ARKLOW 2010 Rezif | 5 | $38.80 Donald Sexton, Greta Kuntzweiler 2:44.74 | 6 1/4 Cloudy's Knight | Free
Mathew Jacobson, | 116 | Matthew lengths | yielding | Fighter
Donegal Racing’s Arklow, at age 6 racing in blinkers for the first time, became only the third Tom Baughman Jacobson $150,000
two-time winner of Kentucky Downs’ richest race, the $1 million Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf 2009 Cloudy's Knight | 9 | SJ Stables Rosemary Home- 2:33.96 | 2 1/2 Rezif | Silver Mountain
Cup (now the $1 million Calumet Turf Cup), taking the Grade 3 stakes by 1 1/4 lengths over Red $12.20 meister | 116 | Jna- lengths | good |
Knight. As with his victory in 2018 and runner-up performance last year to Zulu Alpha, Arklow than Sheppard $150,000
was ridden by Kentucky Downs’ 2015-2016 meet titlist Florent Geroux. He joins Rochester (2002- 2008 Rumor Has It | 7 | James Glenn and Eduardo Perez | 116 2:28.27 | 3 3/4 Stream of Gold | My
2003) and Da Big Hoss (2015-16) as the Grade 3 stakes only two-time winners. $121.20 William Patterson | David Hinsley lengths | firm | Happiness
$200,000
“It’s easy to say it now, but we had a lot of confidence that he would move forward with the
2007 General Jumbo | 5 | Tom Conway Jeremy Rose | 116 | 2:26.98 | 1/2 length | Fri Guy | Golden Strat-
blinkers,” said winning trainer Brad Cox. “This is something we circle on the calendar: this race, $6.80 Graham Motion firm | $200,000 egy
every year.”
2006 Embossed | 4 | Gary Tanaka Larry Melancon | 3:36.92 | nose | good Lord Carmen | Roch-
The 1 1/2-mile Calumet Turf Cup became a Grade 2 race as well as a “Win And You’re In” fees- $71.60 116 | Niall O'Cal- | $200,000 ester
paid qualifier to the $4 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf in 2021. laghan
MEDIA GUIDE 20 MEDIA GUIDE 21Year Horse | Age |
Payout
Owner Jockey | Weight | Time | Purse |
Trainer Condition | Mar-
Second Place |
Third Place FANDUEL TURF SPRINT STAKES (G2)
gin
6 FURLONGS | THREE YEAR OLDS AND UP | $700,000 | GRADE III
2005 Silverfoot | 5 | $4.80 Chrysalis Stables Rafael Bejarano | 2:30.30 | 6 3/4 Rochester | Gallo Del
120 | Dallas Stweart lengths | firm | Bar
$200,000 HIGHEST PAYOFF
— $74.60 Amazon River, 2001
2004 Sabiango | 6 | $4.80 Monty Roberts Brice Blanc | 119 | 2:33.70 | 3 lengths | Rochester | Gotta-
Tim Yakteen firm | $200,000 beachboy LOWEST PAYOFF
— $4.40 Atticus Kristy, 2006
2003 Rochester * ON DQ Augustin Stable Eddie Martin | 116 | 2:31.39 | head | firm | Quest Star | Art Vari-
| 7 | $11.80 Jonathan Sheppard $200,000 ety* (DQ 1st to 3rd) LARGEST WINNING MARGIN
— 6 lengths Morluc, 2000
2002 Rochester | 6 | Augustin Stable Eddie Martin | 116 | 2:38.28 | 2 1/2 Nowrass | Continental
$24.80 Jonathan Sheppard lengths | good | Red SHORTEST WINNING MARGIN
$300,000 — nose Fredericktown, 2003
2001 Chorwon | 8 | $14.80 Phoebe Miller Jon Court | 113 | 2:28.68 | 5 lengths | The Knight Sky | Man RACE HELD AT VARIOUS DISTANCES
Hal Wiggins firm | $300,000 From Wicklow
- 6 Furlongs: 1998-2013, 2019-2021; 6 1/2 Furlongs: 2014-2018
2000 Down the Aisle | 7 | Charles Deters Robby Albarado | 2:27.70 | head | firm | Crowd Pleaser | Royal RACE KNOWN AS
$7.60 117 | Bill Mott $300,000 Strand - Race known as the Kentucky Cup Turf Dash 1998-2010, Kentucky Downs
Turf Dash 2011-2015, Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint 2016-2018, RUNHAPPY
1999 Fahris | 5 | $13.80 Shadwell Stable Shane Sellers | 116 | 2:29.60 | neck | firm | Yaqthan | Royal Strand Turf Sprint 2019-present. Earned Grade 3 status in 2017.
Kiaran McLaughlin $300,000
1998 Yaqthan | 8 | $17.40 Merdonmar Stable Brian Peck | 115 | 2:27.60 | 1 1/2 Perwin | Chorwon
Tony Reinstedler lengths | firm |
$250,000
1995 Lassigny | 4 | $4.80 Sultan Mohammed Pat Day | 116 | Bill 2:30.60 | 1 1/2 Slewper Imp | Lindon
al Kabeer Mott lengths | firm | Lime
$250,000
1994 Lindon Lime |4 | Frank Mansell Shane Sellers | 113 | 2:31.40 | 4 lengths | Sir Mark Sykes | Drum-
$18.60 Elliot Walden good | $250,000 mer Boy
1993 Know Heights | 4 | Mike Sloan Kent Desormeaux | 2:25.60 | 3 lengths | Drummer Boy | Little
$3.80 116 | Bob Hess firm | $300,000 Bro Lantis
2020 STAKES RECAP | IMPRIMIS
1992 Drummer Boy | 4 | Eleanore Cohen and Garrett Gomez | 114 2:28.40 | 3/4 length | Plate Dancer | Karmani
$14.80 Elise Ebert | Dennis Ebert firm | $300,000 One year after getting beat as the favorite in the $700,000 RUNHAPPY Turf Sprint Stakes (now the
$1 million FanDuel Turf Sprint), Imprimis got up by a neck under Irad Ortiz Jr. over dead-heat
1991 Silver Medallion | 5 John Franks Craig Perret | 120 | 2:31.30 | nose | firm | Crystal Moment| Big runners-up Front Run the Fed and Bombard to capture the Grade 3 stakes at six furlongs.
| $3.20 Phil Hauswald $200,000 Warning
The victory gave Imprimis a fees-paid spot in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint as part of
1990 Slow Fuse | 5 | Saron Stable Randy Romero | 114 2:33.60 | head | firm | Two Moccasins | Green the Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series program.
$16.40 | J. Bert Sonnier $250,000 Barb
“I expected this effort. But this was a tough race,” said trainer Joe Orseno. “There were some
quality horses in there. I mean, the Breeders’ Cup won’t be any tougher.”
MEDIA GUIDE 22 MEDIA GUIDE 23STAKES HISTORY Year Horse | Age | Owner Jockey | Time | Margin Second Place |
Year Horse | Age | Owner Jockey | Time | Margin Second Place | Payout Weight | | Condition | Third Place
Payout Weight | | Condition | Third Place Trainer Purse
Trainer Purse 2004 Battle Won | 4 | Jay Manoogian Rafael Bejarano 1:10.86 | 1 1/4 Draw Fire | Ab-
2020 Imprimis | 6 | $8.00 Breeze Easy LLC Irad Ortiz Jr. 1:09.93 | neck | Front Run the $4.80 | 116 | Chuck lengths | firm | derian
| 121 | Joseph soft | $700,000 Fed* | Bombard* Simon $100,000
Orseno *DH for 2nd 2003 Fredericktown | 4 | Silverton Hill LLC Rafael Bejarano 1:12.59 | nose | Abderian | Call-
2019 Totally Boss | 4 | Susan and Jim Hill Florent Geroux 1:09.21 | 1 1/4 Smart Remark | $14.80 | 115 | Darrin firm | $100,000 thesheriff
$10.80 | 121 | Rusty lengths | firm | Leinster Miller
Arnold $700,000 2002 Red Lightning | 4 | Philip S. Maas Calvin Borel | 1:19.90 | 2 1/2 Aloha Bold |
2018 Proforma DARRS Inc. Joe Bravo | 121 | 1:15.72 | head | White Flag | Vici $19.00 113 | Jeff Thorn- lengths | good | Mighty Beau
| 4 | $17.60 Michael Stidham good | $500,000 berry $100,000
2001 Amazon River | 3 | Kenneth Hoffman Robby Albarado 1:11.34 | 1 1/2 One by the
2017 Hogy Michael Hui Florent Geroux | 1:16.88 | 1/2 Commend | Un-
$74.60 | 114 | Kenneth lengths | firm | Knows | El
| 8 | $7 125 | Mike Maker length | firm | drafted
Hoffman $100,000 Basque
$400,000
2000 Morluc | 4 | $5.40 Michael Cloonan Robby Albarado 1:09.66 | 6 Rudi Rudy | Run
2016 Successful Native Marco Bommarito Robby Albarado 1:17.51 | neck | Hogy | Almasty
| 116 | Randy lengths | firm | Johnny
| 5 | $22.80 | 125 | Aubrey firm | $350,000
Morse $100,000
Maragh
1999 Run Johnny | 7 | John Oakley Pat Day | 119 | 1:11.60 | length | Prankster | Coup
2015 Sweet Luca Fortino Inc. Robby Albarado | 1:19.44 | neck | Holy Lute | Bye
$7.00 Morris Nicks firm | $100,000
| 6 | $29.20 121 | Chris Block good | $300,000 Bye Bernie
2014 Dimension Riverside Blood- Chris Landeros 1:17.16 | neck | Something Extra 1998 GH's Pleasure | 6 | Tony Canonie, K. Victor Espinoza 1:09.40 | head | Heckofaralph |
| 6 | $12.40 stock | 121 | Conor firm | $200,000 | Undrafted $10.20 Hoffman, et al. | 113 | Kenneth firm | $100,000 Iron Post
(Conor Murphy) Murphy Hoffman
2013 Longhunter Kenneth and Sarah Alan Garcia | 121 1:10.28 | 1/2 Xblanque | Ancil
| 5 | $7.80 Ramsey | Mike Maker length | firm |
$150,000
2012 Good Lord Thomas Shank and Gabriel Saez | 121 1:18.58 | 2 1/4 Icon Ike | Will's
| 5 | $14.00 Stan Young | Forrest Kaelin lengths | yielding Wildcat
| $75,000
2010 Due Date Richard, Bert and Tony Farina | 116 1:16.41 | length | Amazing Results
| 5 | $7.20 Elaine Klein | Steve Margolis yielding | $50,000 | Classical Clos-
ing
2009 Fort Prado Team Block Eduardo Perez | 1:11.49 | head | Yankee Injunuiti-
| 8 | $13.60 116 | Chris Block good | $50,000 ty | Hold the Salt
2008 Hold the Salt | 6 | Cynthia Knight Rosemary Ho- 1:09.15 | neck | Fort Prado |
$14.60 meister | 118 | firm | $100,000 Kingship
James Dodgen
2007 Hold the Salt | 5 | Cynthia Knight Charlie Woods 1:09.25 | 2 Shark | Ecclesi-
$25.60 | 116 | James lengths | firm | astic
Dodgen $100,000
2006 Atticus Kristy | 5 | Centaur Farms and Jesus Castanon 1:12.64 | 2 1/2 Mocha Queen
$4.40 Dan Lynch | 122 | Merrill lengths | good | |Actual
Scherer $100,000
2005 Durban Thunder | 4 Stud Raca Calvin Borel | 1:10.30 | head | Atticus Kristy |
| $8.40 116 | Helen Pitts firm | $100,000 Super Fuse
MEDIA GUIDE 24 MEDIA GUIDE 25LADIES TURF STAKES (G3) STAKES HISTORY
ONE MILE | FILLIES AND MARES THREE YEARS OLD AND UP | $500,000 | GRADE III Year Horse | Age | Owner Jockey | Weight Time | Margin Second Place |
Payout | Trainer | Condition | Third Place
HIGHEST PAYOFF Purse
— $52.80 Danzon, 2009 2020 Regal Glory | 4 | Paul P. Pompa Jr. Jose Ortiz | 122 | 1:34.34 | neck Mitchell Road |
$4.80 Chad Brown | yielding | Tapit Today
LOWEST PAYOFF $500,000
— $3.20 Pleasant Temper, 1999 2019 Ms Bad Behavior | 4 Sayjay Racing LLC, Jose Ortiz | 121 | 1:35.25 | 1 1/2 Mitchell Road |
| $26.60 Greg Hall, Brooke Richard Baltas lengths | firm | Simply Breathless
LARGEST WINNING MARGIN Hubbard $500,000 (GB)
— 3 3/4 lengths Secret Someone 2016, Miz Ida 2012, Sand Springs 2004 2018 Insta Erma | 5 | Medallion Racing, Drayden Van Dyke 1:36.26 | neck | Valadorna | Pas
$15.40 Premier Racing | 121 | Richard good | $500,000 de Soucis (IRE)
SHORTEST WINNING MARGIN Club, Jerry McCla- Baltas
— nose Harness Hitch 1992 nahan
2017 Miss Temple City | 5 Sagamore Farm, Edgar Prado | 121 | 1:36.91 | neck | Zipessa | Linda
RACE KNOWN AS | $3.60 Needle in a Hay- Graham Motion firm | $350,000
- Rachel Jackson (1992-1995), Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf (1998-2018), stack, The Club
Three Chimneys Ladies Turf (2018-present), earned GIII status in 2017 Racing LLC
2016 Secret Someone | 5 | Mt. Brilliant Farm Robby Albarado 1:38.00 | 3 3/4 Cash Control |
$15.40 | 125 | Michael lengths | firm | She's Not Here
Stidham $300,000
2015 Kiss Moon | 4 | Carl Pollard Corey Lanerie | 125 1:36.18 | neck | Im Already Sexy |
$12.60 | David Vance firm | $300,000 Sunset Glow
2014 I'm Already Sexy | 4 Hit the Board Sta- Florent Geroux | 1:35.25 | length | Strike Charmer |
| $4.20 bles 125 | Wayne Cata- firm | $150,000 Rosee is Cozee
lano
2013 Dancing to Town | 5 Ramona Bass Joe Rocco | 123 | 1:35.52 | length | Lily to the Pink |
| $12.60 Michael Matz firm | $150,000 Nashindy
COADY PHOTO
2012 Miz Ida | 3 | $8.60 Richard, Bert, and Shaun Bridgmohan 1:50.46 | 3 3/4 Ridgester | Affair
Elaine Klein | 120 | Steve Mar- lengths | yielding Dabbler
golis | $75,000
2011 Snow Top Mountain Barbara Hunter Mark Guidry | 118 1:39.83 3/4 Seniga Riveria
2020 STAKES RECAP | REGAL GLORY | 4 | $6.60 | Tom Proctor length | firm | Chic
$50,000
Regal Glory got away from her stablemates and the result was a neck victory over Mitchell Road 2010 Never Retreat | 5 | Team Block Eduardo Perez | 1:46.18 | 1/2 Seniga | Ladies
in the $500,000, Grade 3 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf, the second stakes victory of the meet for $6.40 122 | Chris Block length | yielding | Laughter
trainer Chad Brown. Regal Glory had been beaten by Grade 1-winning stablemates in her prior $50,000
three starts since winning a trio of stakes last year.
2009 Danzon | 6 | $52.80 Joe Allen Miguel Mena | 116 1:40.70 | 1 1/2 Secret Kn | Lady
| Kellyn Gorder lengths | good | Carlock
“Chad is doing fantastic here in his first year and his horses are doing fantastic, too,” said Jose $50,000
Ortiz, Kentucky Downs’ 2018-19 leading jockey. “I’m glad he came here. He’s one of the best train-
2008 Royal Pleasure | 5 | Augustin Stable Rosemary Homeis- 1:37.23 | head | Meribel | Kater-
ers in the nation, so why not be here?”
$14.40 ter | 122 | Jonathan firm | $100,000 bug
Sheppard
The Kentucky Downs victory proved especially poignant as it was the last victory for own-
er-breeder Paul Pompa, who died unexpectedly a month later. Regal Glory was sold at dispersal 2007 Quiet Royal | 4 | Wertheimer and Chris deCarlo | 116 1:37.42 | 3/4 Rich Fantasy |
in January for $925,000 to Brown client Peter Brant. $4.20 Frere | Todd Pletcher length | firm | Camela Carson
$100,000
MEDIA GUIDE 26 MEDIA GUIDE 27Year Horse | Age | Owner Jockey | Weight Time | Purse Second Place |
THE MINT LADIES SPRINT STAKES (G3)
Payout | Trainer | Condition | Third Place
6 1/2 FURLONGS | FILLIES AND MARES THREE YEARS AND UP | $600,000 | GRADE III
Margin
2006 Dash of Humor | 6 | James Conway Calvin Borel | 118 | 1:41.59 | neck | Honey Rose |
HIGHEST PAYOFF
$6.20 Hal Wiggins good | $100,000 Victory Lap
— $12.00 Morticia, 2018
2005 Miss Wellspring | 4 | John Eaton and Rafael Bejarano | 1:39.25 | 1/2 Juliet's Kiss | Fast LOWEST PAYOFF
$23.20 Steve Laymon 116 | Greg Foley length | firm | Cookie — $5.00 Mississippi Delta 2016
$100,00
2004 Sand Springs | 4 | Willmott Stables Mark Guidry | 115 1:36.88 | 3 3/4 Wildwood Royal LARGEST WINNING MARGIN
$10.80 | Tony Reinstedler lengths | firm | | Omeya — 3 1/4 lengths Got Stormy, 2020
$100,000
2003 Apasionata Sonata | Fred Seitz Rafael Bejarano | 1:37.84 | 2 Curious Conun- SHORTEST WINNING MARGIN
5 | $18.40 115 | John Ward lengths | firm | drum | Blue Spur — nose Sky Treasure 2015
$100,000
2002 San Dare | 5 | $22.20 David Mounts Willie Martinez | 1:42.55 | 1 1/2 Doubly Fun | RACE KNOWN AS
115 | Rick Hiles lengths | good | Sluice - Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint 2013-2018, Spendthrift Farm Ladies Sprint
$100,000 2019-2020. Earned GIII STATUS IN 2018.
2000 Silken | 4 | $8.80 Winstar Farm Larry Melancon 1:36.16 | 3 1/2 Confessional |
| 113 | Elliott lengths | firm | Gran Mujer
Walden $100,000
1999 Pleasant Temper | 5 Mark Stanley Pat Day | 121 | 1:37.20 | 3 Formal Tango |
| $3.20 Elliott Walden lengths | firm | Prado's Pride
$100,000
1998 Pleasant Temper | 4 | Mark Stanley Larry Melancon 1:35.20 | 3 Song of Africa |
$16.40 | 112 | Elliott lengths | firm | Pomona
Walden $100,000
1995 Lady Skywalker | 5 | Richard Gotschall Robert Williams | 1:37.80 | 1/2 Very Special Lite
$27.00 114 | Larry Donlin length | firm | | Words of War
$125,000
1994 Words of War | 5 | Lawrence Karp et al Eddie Martin | 119 1:37.20 | length | Weekend Mad-
$24.00 | Joe Kasperski good | $125,000 ness | One
Dreamer
1993 One Dreamer | 5 | Glen Hill Farm Earlie Fires | 120 | 1:37.80 | 2 Marshua's River | 2020 STAKES RECAP | GOT STORMY
$8.80 Tom Proctor lengths | firm | Guiza
$150,000 Gary Barber’s Got Stormy, a multiple Grade 1 winner who was second in the 2019 Breeders’ Cup
1992 Harness Hitch | 5 | Barbara Hunter Shawn Payton | 110 1:35.40 | nose | Prebend Learycal Mile, had never sprinted before exploding down the stretch under 2020 leading rider Tyler Gaf-
$9.20 | Steve Rieser firm | $150,000 falione to take the $500,000, Grade 3 Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint at 6 1/2 furlongs by 3 1/4
lengths over Winning Envelope.
“We always felt that way,” trainer Mark Casse said of Got Stormy racing at shorter distances, “but
there’s never been an opportunity. For $500,000, we figured this would be a good time to do it.”
Now The Mint Ladies Sprint, the Grade 3 stakes carries a $600,000 purse in 2021.
MEDIA GUIDE 28 MEDIA GUIDE 29STAKES HISTORY FRANKLIN-SIMPSON STAKES (G2)
Year Horse | Age | Owner Jockey | Time | Margin Second Place | 6 1/2 FURLONGS | THREE YEAR OLDS | $600,000 | GRADE II
Payout Weight | | Condition | Third Place
Trainer Purse HIGHEST PAYOFF
2020 Got Stormy | 5 | Gary Barber Tyler Gaffalione | 1:15.41 | 3 1/4 Winning Enve- — $49.40 Legends of War, 2019
$5.80 121 | Mark Casse lengths | soft | lope | Into Mystic
$500,000 LOWEST PAYOFF
2019 Morticia | 5 | $12.00 G. Watts Humphrey Tyler Gaffali- 1:15.85 | 1 3/4 A Little Bit Me — $8.80 Angaston, 2018
Jr one| 121 | Rusty lengths | firm | | Oleksandra
Arnold $500,000 (AUS) LARGEST WINNING MARGIN
2018 Ruby Notion | 5 | Silverton Hill LLC Florent Geroux 1:15.80 | neck | Lull | Brielle's — 2 lengths Master Merion, 2017
$8.20 | 125 | Darrin good | $450,000 Appeal
Miller SHORTEST WINNING MARGIN
2017 Lull | 3 | $8.00 Claiborne Farm & Brian Hernandez 1:17.22 | 2 Happy Mesa | — neck Guildsman (FR), 2020; Angaston, 2018
Adele Dilschneider Jr. | 118 | Christo- lengths | firm | Morticia
phe Clement $350,000 RACE DISTANCE
- 7 Furlongs: 2017
2016 Mississippi Delta | 4 Jackpot Ranch and Florent Geroux | 1:18.79 | 1 3/4 Rapid Rhythm |
- 6 1/2 Furlongs: 2018 - present
| $5.00 Mike Rutherford 121 | Mark Casse lengths | yielding Bumble Doll
| $350,000
2015 Sky Treasure | 5 | John Oxley Julien Leparoux | 1:19.83 | nose | Seeking Treasure
$10.60 125 | Mark Casse good | $300,000 | Theatre Star
2014 Richies Party Girl | 4 Richard Ravin and Rafael Hernan- 1:16.51 | 1 1/4 Kiama | Eden
| $10.60 Wesley Ward dez | 122 | Wesley lengths | firm | Prairie
Ward $200,000
2013 To My Valentine | 3 Ice Wine Stables David Flores | 1:17.15 | head | Magical Moon |
| $9.00 121 | Mark Casse firm | $200,000 Soft Whisper
2020 STAKES RECAP | GUILDSMAN (FR)
Tyler Gaffalione capped his first riding title at Kentucky Downs as Qatar Racing’s French-bred 9-1
shot Guildsman came from far back to beat 21-shot Island Commish by a neck in the $500,000,
Grade 3 Franklin-Simpson Stakes.
The Brendan Walsh-trained Guildsman provided the 26-year-old Gaffalione his meet-leading 11th
win. “My agent has done an incredible job preparing for this meet,” he said of Matt Muzikar. “I’m
so thrilled for Brendan. We’ve been trying to hook up with this colt. The distance was key today,
just a little extra ground.”
Qatar Racing won the Franklin-Simpson for the second straight year, being the co-owner of 2019
winner Doug O'Neill-trained winner Legends of War. “It certainly made Sheikh Fahad a big fan
of Kentucky Downs,” said his representative, Fergus Galvin. “He's already wanting to stock up
the stable to point to the meeting next year.” The stakes earned Grade 2 designation for 2021 and
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