Turf should dry out for Saturday card
RACE REPLAY IS NOT AVAILABLE
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In lieu of a stakes race Saturday, four allowances will serve as co-features of a 10-race Churchill card that starts at the usual 1 p.m. Eastern.
The richest of those four races is the ninth, which offers a purse of $95,000, including $40,200 in bonuses to registered Kentucky-breds. Crafty Daddy and Captivating Moon, the one-two finishers in the off-turf Opening Verse during Kentucky Derby week, are among the contenders in a well-matched field of 11 entered in the 1 1/16-mile race.
The other allowances go as races 3, 6, and 7.
After a soaking mid-week rain that forced races off the turf Thursday, a lengthy pattern of dry weather was in the regional forecast starting Friday. Sunshine and a high of 61 is the call for Saturday, so racing on the turf is likely. Live televised action of the entire card is available on FS2.
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Churchill won’t race next Friday and Saturday while the Breeders’ Cup is being held just up the road at Keeneland – although with no fans being permitted at Keeneland, some horseplayers are planning to be at Churchill, which is open both days for simulcasting.
The next Churchill stakes is the Grade 2 Mrs. Revere on Nov. 14.