Ashland – Grade I [KYO] 1 1/16 Mile Dirt Stake Purse $750.000 Filly 3 Year Olds. 1st Creepy Runner Party Mb Stables Velazquez J R The Martyparty bred and Mb Stables trained three-year-old showed why she was good enough to… Read More ›
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Big Blue Brilliantly Stretches Out and Wins Transylvania Stakes
A big turf race took place on Friday in the running of the Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes at KEE, and some rain came in to affect the track just enough for it to be downgraded to “good” status. That would not be a problem for Big Blue, a horse that ran in the BC Juvenile Turf Sprint last fall, and was stretching out for the first time.
It’s Opening Day at KEE! Let’s See What’s Shakin’ in The Lafayette Stakes
4/6/2025 Bonus Coverage 3 KEE Lafayette Stakes $400.000 3yo 7f Dirt Weight 120lbs It’s not a graded race, there are no KYD points involved… but it’s the first stakes of the Spring… Read More ›
Large Purse And 100 Points On The Line In BG Stakes
If you add together the purses for the other two KYD preps on Saturday, the Wood Memorial and the SA Derby, you get $1,250.000. That would also be the purse amount for the BG Stakes, by itself. KEE is certainly doing something right by increasing their purses, a stark contrast from SA, who lowered theirs for 2025.
Ava Looks to Back Up the BC Win in Appalachian
Appalachian – Grade II KEE Race #7 1m Turf Graded StakePurse $500.000 For Fillies Three Years Old. 1 Sannys Legacy Threshold Lopez P 120 — A deep closer, she will need some pace on here over a mile but has… Read More ›
Could Be the Race of the Year as Two Great Champions Lock Horns in Vinery Madison
Vinery Madison – Grade I KEE Race #8 7f Dirt Graded StakePurse $650.000 For Fillies And Mares Four Years Old And Upward. 1 Lady Sammyantha The Sidley Stud Lopez P 123 — The BC Fillies and Mares Sprint Champion returns… Read More ›
Six Fillies in Sunday Sprint Stakes At KEE… It’s The Beaumont
4/6/2025 6 KEE Beaumont (GII) $400.000 3yo 7f Dirt Weight 120lbs Opening weekend at KEE and we have Sunday Stakes action as six sprinting fillies will do battle in the… Read More ›
100 Valuable Points on the Line in SA Derby
We’ve reached the final big weekend of prep races for the KYD, as three 100-point races will be held that can shake up the leaderboard as we currently know it. There will then be the “Hail Mary” next weekend in the Lexington, but this weekend will determine a lot. Here, we will head out west to SA, to take a look at the 22nd running of the Grade 1 SA Derby.
Hang on Tight… It’s the Shakertown at KEE
4/5/2025 6 KEE Shakertown (GII) $400.000 3yo&Up 5 1/2f Turf 3yo 117lbs Older 125lbs The Most Beautiful Place On Earth! Man, oh man, do I love KEE!! We catch a field of eight sod sprinters set… Read More ›
Thousand Hours Gets There in the End for Mb Stables
The Fantasy – Grade II [KYO] 1 1/16 Mile Dirt Stake Purse $750.000 Filly 3 Year Olds. 1st Thousand Hours Mb Stables Prat F It was not a day for on speed at OP today as this much improved filly… Read More ›