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Stars of Yesterday: Looking Back at Best Lecomte Stakes Winners

The Louisiana path to the 2024 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve resumes this Saturday, with the running of the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes. The Lecomte will be run at its customary 1 1/16-mile distance and will have a purse of $200,000 in 2024.

Fierceness Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Todd Pletcher Repole Holy Bull Stakes Gulfstream Park Kentucky Derby Locked Dynamic One Grand Aspen Pegasus World Cup horse racing

A Stronger Fierceness On Track for Holy Bull Stakes

The Todd Pletcher barn had a busy morning Jan.

Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, Churchill Downs, Eclipse Sportswire

Kentucky Derby Purse Raised to Record $5 Million

The landmark 150th Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve on Saturday, May 4 will be the richest in history as the purse for America’s greatest race has been elevated to a guaranteed $5 million.

Dornoch Kentucky Derby Remsen Blue Grass Stakes Fountain of Youth Danny Gargan Wood Memorial Aqueduct Keeneland Gulfstream Park Mage Drum Roll Please horse racing West Paces Belmar Two Eight

Dornoch Targeting Fountain of Youth on Derby Trail, Followed by Blue Grass or Wood Memorial

A few days after the third-place finisher in the Remsen Stakes posted an initial stakes victory, the highly regarded winner of that mile-and-an-eighth Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve prep is taking his first steps toward matching his full brother’s magical accomplishment.

Swaps: A Speedy, Well-Oiled Machine

Barry Irwin, now the head of Team Valor International, was entering his teenage years in Southern California when Swaps burst onto the scene in 1955.

“He just really excited me and caught my imagination,” Irwin recalled.

Irwin was hardly alone. Swaps’ popularity became so enormous that Union 76 gas stations began distributing posters of him. “I kept pushing my father to get gas there so I could get more pictures,” Irwin said.

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