Cox sends out favorite for Sunday feature at Ellis

Trainer Brad Cox has the morning-line favorite in the Sunday feature at Ellis Park in western Kentucky in Take That for Data, who will have Florent Geroux aboard in the $52,000 second-level allowance at 1 1/16 miles on turf. It’s the eighth of nine races on a card that starts at 12:50 p.m. Central.

Ellis will conduct racing Monday – normally a dark day – as the track makes up one of two cards (July 19-20) recently canceled due to oppressive heat. First post for an eight-race card is 12:50.

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* Kentucky Downs has moved first post for its upcoming meet to 12:15 p.m. Central, which is an hour and 10 minutes earlier than what had been customary at the turf-only track in south-central Kentucky.

Dates for the 2019 meet are Aug. 31 and Sept. 5, 7, 8, 12. The track is sponsoring a contest on Twitter that awards the winner an expenses-paid trip for two to the track. The contest ends Wednesday, with results being announced next Sunday during Kentucky Downs Preview Day at Ellis.