Keeneland News

Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry spoke between a horse from the Horse Mania 2000 , right, and one of the new horses, in the background, during a kickoff celebration for Horse Mania 2010 held on the front lawn of Dudley Square in Lexington, Ky., Monday, June 29, 2009.

A 2-year-old out of the Diablo mare Diablo River, Angus Kahn won the $35,250 maiden-special weight race by 4 ¾ lengths.

Bluegrass Princess has been third in her two graded stakes starts this season. Photo: Coglianese Photos Dell Ridge Farm's Bluegrass Princess , third in her two graded stakes starts this season, may be in prime position to pick up her first blacktype victory when facing seven rivals in the $150,000 Boiling Springs Stakes June 27 on the Monmouth Park ...

While making her racing debut, she defeated Elusive Galaxy by 2 3/4 lengths. Trained by Mrs.

Silenceofthewind won a maiden race at Newcastle by three lengths on Thursday to give freshman sire Eddington his first winner.

While the Kentucky General Assembly adjourned a special session without new legislation to allow video lottery terminals, supporters of the Kentucky horse industry rallied at Keeneland Race Course on Wednesday night.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fresh off the loss in the legislature of video lottery terminals for Kentucky horse tracks, a crowd estimated at more than 900 people packed the Keeneland sales pavilion on Wednesday evening for a rally organized by the Kentucky Equine Education Project.

About 1,000 people turned out for a short-notice rally at Keeneland the evening of June 24 and were told the fight for racetrack gaming isn't over.

The post-mortem analyses of the bill to allow slots at horse tracks was underway Tuesday morning, the day after the measure died in a Senate budget committee - and most of the fingers were pointed at Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville. The bill was to provide revenues, increase purses and boost breeders' incentives for the horse ...

The Kentucky Equine Education Project will host a horse industry rally Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. EDT at the Keeneland Sales Pavilion in Lexington.

The Breeders' Cup Challenge, a series of automatic qualifying races for the $25.5 million 2009 Breeders' Cup World Championships, has expanded to a record 62 races taking place in seven countries.

As Kentucky legislative leaders weigh a proposal to allow slot machines at horse racetracks, the governor of Ohio may have upped the ante.

The turf races are part of the $1 million Queen's Plate undercard. Jayne Marie Slysz and Rob Ry Farm's Heros Reward will have to knock off nine rivals if he is to take the $200,000 Highlander in consecutive seasons.

They didn't have a bill. They didn't take a vote. The House Licensing and Occupation Committee heard about two versions of a proposal to allow video lottery terminals at horse tracks.

FRANKFORT, Ky -- The first of a pair of committee hearings for House Bill 2, the video slots measure, was held Wednesday afternoon before the House Licensing & Occupations panel.

"She is just a nice, plain mare; nothing special." That is the way Don Blowe describes 16-year-old Halo Silver, a bay he purchased in 2001 to add to his small band of broodmares at Ascot Thoroughbreds, a farm he and his wife, Beth, own just north of Ontario, Canada.

A major Kentucky thoroughbred farm that houses the great former stallion Storm Cat announced it is selling off some 200 horses, nearly its entire stock.

Ariege, last year's Santa Anita Oaks winner, makes her 2009 graded stakes debut when facing seven rivals in the $150,000 Eatontown Handicap June 7 on the Monmouth Park turf.

Owned by Chester and Mary Broman, the 21-year-old daughter of Cox's Ridge had produced a Hook and Ladder colt two days earlier.

Sam-Son Farms' homebred Eye of the Leopard came five-wide into the lane and ran down Southdale in the final strides to win the $152,000 Plate Trial Stakes by a neck May 31 at Woodbine.