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"Best of the Blue Grass Stakes" on WVLK with Tom Leach
In 1991, radio personality Tom Leach produced this top ten ranking of Blue Grass Stakes races. The ranking was voted on by a panel of featured interviewees including legendary racing jockeys, owners, trainers, and farm managers including former…
Spectacular Bid with groom and trainer
The sensational Spectacular Bid, with groom Herman Hall and trainer Bud Delp at Keeneland in April 1979.
The heavily favored colt was piloted by Ronnie Franklin to an impressive 7-length victory over Lot o’ Gold in the 1979 Blue Grass Stakes. The…
The heavily favored colt was piloted by Ronnie Franklin to an impressive 7-length victory over Lot o’ Gold in the 1979 Blue Grass Stakes. The…
Pat Day celebrates aboard Summer Squall
Summer Squall, with Racing Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day up, after their 1990 Blue Grass Stakes win.
Sporting Cot Campbell’s Dogwood Stable colors, Summer Squall went undefeated in all five of his starts as a two-year-old. By his three-year-old…
Sporting Cot Campbell’s Dogwood Stable colors, Summer Squall went undefeated in all five of his starts as a two-year-old. By his three-year-old…
Flavien Prat celebrates aboard Zandon
Flavien Prat celebrates his 2022 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes victory aboard Zandon. The win was the colt’s second in his first four starts and Prat’s first Blue Grass victory.
Bred by Brereton Jones, trained by Chad Brown, and campaigned by Jeffrey…
Bred by Brereton Jones, trained by Chad Brown, and campaigned by Jeffrey…
Essential Quality (outside) duels with Highly Motivated
Essential Quality contests Highly Motivated (finished second) in the 2021 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes. Ranked second by North American earnings in 2021, Essential Quality prevailed by a neck in the 97th running of the Blue Grass.
Gotcha!
Peb's caricature/humorist artwork depicts Thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas and owner William T. Young.
Le Cirque Du Super Saturday
Peb's caricature/humorist artwork depicts Nick Nicholson, president of Keeneland; Charles J. Cella, president of Oaklawn Park; and Barry K. Schwartz, Chairman of the New York Racing Association, in preparation for the 2001 Blue Grass Stakes, Arkansas…
Who Do You Like in the Blue Grass?
Peb's caricature/humorist artwork depicts two horses pulling a plow discussing an upcoming Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.
Strike the Gold wins 1991 Blue Grass
Strike the Gold, Chris Antley up, nearing the finish line to secure the jockey's single Blue Grass Stakes win in 1991. Strike the Gold finished second in the Florida Derby in March before his impressive performance in the Blue Grass, setting the colt…
Start of 2022 Blue Grass
Early surge of the 11-horse field in the 2022 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes. Zandon, trained by Chad Brown and piloted by Flavien Prat, would claim the Triple Crown prep race in 2022 before finishing third in his next start at Churchill Downs in the…