all in The Sport

Fans returned to tracks with great enthusiasm after a year’s absence due to the pandemic. Business was brisk on all fronts as racing celebrated some sense of normalcy and looked hopefully to what shows every sign of being a bright future. Tom Pedulla recalls some of the year’s most significant moments:

Welcome to 2022 Kentucky Derby Prospect Snapshots, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the Triple Crown trail, usually from the Road to the Kentucky Derby schedule from which the racehorses earn points toward qualifying.

The 1 ¼-mile Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve will be held May 7, 2022, at Churchill Downs.

On Stephanie Hronis' first visit to Saratoga, in 2019 to attend a board meeting as a trustee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, her TOBA colleagues took her to the Saratoga yearling sale. She, Terry Finley of West Point Thoroughbreds, and bloodstock agent David Ingordo put their heads together, and by the end of the sale they bought a son of Tapit for $1 million.

"I said that I was going to enjoy the Whitney weekend and soak it all up," said Hronis. "I had some horses picked, and David pulled it together."

Victories in the 2016 Grade 2 Veterans Ford Risen Star Stakes and Grade 2 Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots put eventual 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner on the path to nearly $16 million in career earnings for trainer Steve Asmussen and Winchell Thoroughbreds in

The 2-year-old portion of the Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve comes to an end at Fair Grounds in New Orleans Sunday with the running of the Gun Runner Stakes.

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