History was made on the first Saturday in May when Golden Tempo stormed down the Churchill Downs homestretch to win the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1).

Rhetorical took the early initiative in Saturday’s $1.414 million Turf Classic (G1) at Churchill Downs and never looked back, breaking Lure's stakes record.

Tomoya Ozasa’s T O Elvis pulled away with authority in his U.S. debut Saturday in the $939,600 Churchill Downs S. (G1) at Churchill Downs, easily dispatching a highly regarded field and rolling to a 3 1/4-length victory under jockey Ryusei Sakai.

Stark Contrast proved a decisive winner of the $1 million American Turf (G1) as a 6-5 favorite.

Crude Velocity came into Saturday’s $741,330 Pat Day Mile S. (G2) at Churchill Downs unbeaten in two tries and proved to be one to watch in the coming months in scoring a tough victory against pacesetter Englishman. Trained by Bob Baffert and ridden to victory by Florent Geroux, the CSLR Racing Partners' color-bearer earned a black-type score in his initial try.

Ten years after sending out Hall of Famer Tepin to repeat in the Churchill Distaff Turf Mile (G2), Mark Casse won Saturday’s $976,000 renewal.

In a thrilling finish to the $594,600 Twin Spires Turf Sprint (G2) at Churchill Downs on Saturday, Yellow Card prevailed in a four-horse photo

Seizing control at the start and allowed to set an uncontested pace, R Disaster turned back Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) winner Splendora

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Always a Runner entered the $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) on Friday, the least experienced of the 13 three-year-old fillies in the field.

Flying Dutchman Breeding and Racing's Shred the Gnar came into Friday’s $1 million La Troienne S. (G1) off a very troubled trip in the Royal Delta (G3) at Gulfstream and made amends over a game Fully Subscribed.

The “other” Chad Brown angle was in play in Friday’s $478,670 Modesty (G3), while a Brendan Walsh favorite just scraped home in a stakes-record Edgewood (G2).

After a lengthy review of the stretch run of the $750,000 Alysheba (G2) at Churchill Downs on Friday, Corporate Power retained his hard-fought neck victory

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