Ramseys earn record 400th win at Churchill Downs

Owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey won their unprecedented 400th career race at

Churchill Downs on Wednesday when three-year-old gelding Sandbar prevailed in

the second race.

The Ramseys, multiple Eclipse Award winners who race their horses in the

familiar white and red silks branded with an "R," are the all-time leading

owners at Churchill Downs, with Overbrook Farm a distant second with 208

victories. The Nicholasville, Kentucky couple has won a record 22 owners' titles

at the historic Louisville racetrack: nine spring meet championships, 11 fall

meet championships and two September meet championships.

Ramsey, who celebrated his 79th birthday Monday just two days after winning

the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita with Bobby's Kitten, said that

while 400 victories is a great accomplishment, he still has one more goal left

on his Churchill Downs bucket list.

"This is a tremendous accomplishment," Ramsey said. "I never thought I'd get

to 400 wins but I still need to get one more across the way over there in the

Derby (winner's circle) before my time is up. But I'll tell you, it's difficult;

I've started several horses in the Kentucky Derby and haven't gotten a win there

yet so that remains my number one goal."