The days are getting shorter, and the 2024 racing calendar is winding down – the Breeders’ Cup will be key to deciding divisional championships, and only five Grade 1 flat races remain in the United States outside of that event this year. However, this is a sport with no true offseason, and there’s always plenty to look forward to, especially as some 2-year-olds begin to map out their late-fall and winter campaigns toward the 2025 spring classics.
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Churchill Downs had nearly $50 million in additional revenue in the second quarter of this year compared to last year’s second quarter, according to financial documents released by the track’s parent company on Wednesday night, bolstered by what Churchill Downs Inc. called a “record” Kentucky Derby week and additional live racing dates at the track.
Saturday’s broadcast of the Kentucky Derby on NBC drew the highest audience for the race since 1989, according to figures distributed by the network.
The Total Audience Delivery measure – which includes streaming viewership – was an average of 16.7 million viewers during the race portion of the broadcast, from 6 p.m. Eastern to 7:15 p.m., according to NBC. That was the highest figure since the Derby win by Sunday Silence in 1989, when viewership for the single television broadcast was 18.9 million viewers.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Ken McPeek said Sunday morning that Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan is not definite to run in the $2 million Preakness Stakes on May 18 at Pimlico.
After taking the traditional morning-after-the-Derby phone call from Pimlico officials inviting the Derby winner to the Preakness, McPeek told the assembled media outside his Churchill Downs barn Sunday morning that he could wait until entry day - May 13 - to decide whether to run Mystik Dan in the Preakness or train up to the Belmont Stakes on June 8.
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2024 Kentucky Derby (Race 12)
Distance: 1 1/4 miles
Track: Churchill Downs
Post time: 6:57 p.m. Eastern
TV: NBC
Kentucky Derby field
1875 – Hal Price McGrath’s Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with Oliver Lewis aboard for trainer Ansel Williamson. The first Derby is run at 1 1/2 miles.
1882 – Apollo wins the Derby without having run as a 2-year-old. No other horse would accomplish that feat – “the curse of Apollo” – until Justify 136 years later.
1913 – Donerail takes the Derby at a shocking 91-1, to this day the longest odds ever for a Kentucky Derby winner.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Can one really, truly know what it might feel like to participate in their first Kentucky Derby? Trainer Larry Demeritte, who has chased the Derby dream all the way from the Bahamas, has been doing his best for many years to be prepared when that call comes to make the walkover from the stable area.
CHURCHILL DOWNS
Weather: Clear
Temperature: 67°
Track: Fast
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The final special training session for Kentucky Derby and Oaks participants went off without incident Thursday at Churchill Downs. However, Domestic Product, who came out to train nearly 30 minutes later with the general population, did have to delay his gallop briefly due to a horse who lost its rider and got loose in his vicinity while he stood calmly along the outside rail about 100 yards from the finish line.