The action
begins with a ten race card featuring the Bluegrass Two Year Old Filly Trot on
Thursday, September 27. Entries for the stake numbered twenty-six
necessitating four divisions, each for a purse of nearly $90,000.
Division leader
To Dream On has drawn post seven in race 9 for trainer Jimmy Takter and
regular driver David Miller. Marvin Katz and Al Libfeld own the winner of a
third of a million dollars.
PA Sires Stakes
champ Frau Blucher makes her first start back since that win in the third race
with Dave Palone back in the driver's seat for trainer Chris Oakes and owners
Hauser Bros Racing and Matt Tudisco.
Racing continues through
Saturday evening with a post time of 7:00 (EDT), followed by a Sunday matinee
at 1:00. Week two is all daylight cards, Thursday through Sunday at 1:00.
The stakes schedule is as follows; the Bluegrass stakes for all
divisions populate week one, then the International Stallion Stakes (all 2YO), Tattersalls
Pace & Garnsey Memorial, the 120th
edition of the Kentucky Futurity & Filly Futurity and the Allerage
Farms open events are contested the second week.
The schedule is
consistent so far as gait and sex through both weeks with Thursday
featuring the 2YO Filly Trots, the 2YO Filly Pacers and 2YO Colt Trotters
going both Fridays, Saturdays offer the 2YO Colt Pace, 3YO Colt &
Filly Pace and the 3YO Colt & Filly Trotting stakes race Sunday. The
meet ends with its strongest offering on October 7th
featuring the KY Futurity and Allerage Farms FFA
races. An estimated $8 million in purses will be offered over the eight racing
days.
The Lexington Selected
Yearling sale begins at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, October 2nd and
continues each evening through Saturday, October 6th.
The Lexington area is
rich in equine tradition like nowhere else, boasting the famed Kentucky
Horse Park, Keeneland
Racetrack and the most magnificent horse farms in all the world. A brief
description of where to stay and what to do while in town is available at this link.
Complete
information on both the racing and sales is available at The Red Mile website.
