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Keeneland and Budweiser Select Partner To Offer "King for a Day" Sweepstakes
September 01, 2010

Keeneland has partnered with Budweiser Select to offer you the opportunity to become King for a Day! Two winners will be chosen- one from Kentucky and one from outside of Kentucky. The Sweepstakes will run from September 1st-30th, 2010 and the winners will have their “King for a Day” experience on the 16th of October during the Keeneland Fall Meet, which runs from October 8th-30th, 2010.

 

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Whitney Handicap (G1) Winner Blame Returns to Keeneland
August 30, 2010

Grade 1 winner Blame returned to his Rice Road home at Keeneland Monday morning to begin his final preparations for the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), to be held Saturday, November 6 at Churchill Downs.

Weekend Graded Stakes Feature 40 Keeneland Sales Graduates
August 27, 2010
Forty Keeneland sales alumni are entered in this weekend’s graded stakes, including five starters in Saturday’s Shadwell Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.
 
Keeneland wishes good luck to all its sales graduates competing this weekend.
Keeneland Sales Grads Win Grade 1 Stakes in the USA, France and Russia
August 23, 2010
Keeneland sales graduates were global Grade 1 winners this week. In the United States, alumni captured Grade 1 stakes on both coasts – Paddy O’Prado in the Secretariat and Evening Jewel in the Del Mar Oaks. At Deauville, Dream Ahead won the Darley Prix Morny (G1), while Keeneland grads swept Russia’s Grade 1 stakes, highlighted by a 1-2-3 finish in the Russian Derby at Moscow.
 
Keeneland congratulates all its sales graduates who won stakes and maiden races this week.
 
Gio Ponti, Devil May Care, Paddy O’Prado Headline Keeneland-Sold Graded Stakes Entries
August 20, 2010
This weekend’s graded stakes entries feature such Keeneland sales stars as champion Gio Ponti, seeking his second consecutive Arlington Million (G1) title; the top three-year-old fillies Devil May Care, Crisp and Evening Jewel, competing in the Betfair TVG Alabama (G1) and Del Mar Oaks (G1), respectively; and the nation’s best three-year-old turf horse, Paddy O’Prado, set to go postward in the Secretariat (G1).
 
Keeneland wishes good luck to all its sales graduates entered this weekend.
September Sale Grad Kantharos Romps in Saratoga Special
August 17, 2010
Keeneland congratulates September Yearling Sale graduate Kantharos on his easy 7¼- length win in Monday’s Saratoga Special Stakes (G2).
 
The Lion Heart colt, owned by Stonestreet Stables, has dominated the juvenile ranks where he is undefeated in three career starts. Those wins have come by a combined total of 28½ lengths.
 
Kantharos was bred in Kentucky by Hedberg Hall and consigned to the 2009 September Sale by Dave Parrish Jr.’s Indian Creek. He was purchased for $80,000 by Nick Sallusto, agent for Pegasus Holding Group Inc.