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

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.

Kopion was making her first career start both outside of California and on a track other than fast.

Simply in Front was barely that at the conclusion of Saturday’s $740,670 Churchill Distaff Turf Mile (G2) at Churchill Downs, but that was just enough against this highly competitive and compact field.

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