Churchill Downs News - Page 5

News Brief: Churchill Downs will become the latest track in a growing list testing every horse entered for excess alkalizing agents when the Louisville track’s spring-summer meet opens on Saturday.

To celebrate the Running of the Roses, All Horse Racing is offering a free bet on the Kentucky Derby as well as free bets on the other two jewels of the Triple Crown, the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.

Horse-racing fans hoping to secure reserved seats to the 2005 Kentucky Derby can now apply for tickets with only a few clicks of a computer mouse.

Total wagering on the 130th Kentucky Derby and the Derby Day racing card at Churchill Downs smashed a North American record for total betting on an individual event and a single day of races that had been established in the 2003 renewal of the famed ’Run for the Roses.’

News Brief: A record $9.375-million in purses and five new races highlight Churchill Downs’s 45-race stakes schedule this year.

News Brief: Churchill Downs is ‘extremely nervous’ that a smoking ban in Louisville would drive even more people across the river, according to the track's senior vice president.