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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

One of Many Races on Derby Day

Held annually at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, the American Turf Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds. Upgraded to a Grade II in 2010, the famous horse race is run over a distance of 8.5 furlongs on turf in early May, immediately preceding the famous Grade I Kentucky Oakshorse race.

Inaugurated in 1992, the thoroughbred horse race has been run on a left handed, grass track, with the champion leaving home with a purse of $200,000. The most recent champion was Noble Tune, with Javier Castellano as jockey, and trainer Chad C. Brown. Favored Noble Tune, saving all the ground for Castellano, fired through an opening along the hedge to register an easy victory in the American Turf Stakes May 3, 2013 at Churchill Downs, leaving with an amazing victory and $234,200.

Churchill Downs, located in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually. It officially opened in 1875, and held the first Kentucky Derby and the first Kentucky Oaks in the same year. Churchill Downs has also hosted the renowned Breeders' Cup on eight occasions, most recently in 2011. Churchill Downs Incorporated owns and operates the racetrack with a capacity of a whopping $120,000!

The current holder for the time record in this thoroughbred horse race is Doubles Partner in 2010, with a time of 1:41.05, racing with jockey Garrett Gomez and trainer Todd A. Pletcher. Settling in on the rail mid-pack early, Doubles Partner rated off the runaway lead of Lost Aptitude and Strike the Tiger. Doubles Partner began making up ground around the turn under Garrett Gomez, switching outside of Strike the Tiger at the quarter pole before making a powerful run for the wire and finishing 1 3/4 length in front!

“I had a perfect trip, I really did," Gomez said. "I was able to follow two horses that were following the leaders. I just followed behind them for the first three-eighths of a mile. I got to the second turn and I was actually going to move out around them.

The date for the next American Turf Stakes is set on Derby Day, May 3, 2014 and we expect to see great performances brought by all the three year old thoroughbreds!


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