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Maccabee Farm's accomplished Ohio-bred Who Dey leads a field of seven 3-year-olds entered in the $275,000 Ellis Park Derby on a six-stakes program Aug. 11 at Ellis Park. August 7, 2024; ...
Gary and Mary West’s Most Wanted needed every inch of the Ellis Park stretch while holding off Not This Boy to win Sunday’s seventh running of the $260,000 Ellis Park Derby presented by ...
The stakes schedule offers a record $4 million across 18 races, led by the $400,000 Pucker Up (G3) on Kentucky Downs Preview ...
Saturday's $225,000 American Derby at Ellis Park drew a tough field of six including the first two finishers from the May 17 Caesars Stakes at Horseshoe Indianapolis, Gigante and Wadsworth.
The Ellis Park Derby and Groupie Doll are two of six stakes contests held that day. The others are the $175,000 Ellis Park Juvenile, $175,000 Ellis Park Debutante, $175,000 Audubon Oaks and ...
Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, announced on Friday that they would suspend racing after 12 horse deaths happened in one month at their famed racetrack. Race operations at Churchill ...
Live thoroughbred racing returns Thursday at Ellis Park Racing & Gaming, and the 25-day meet is going to be a little different this summer. It's time for horse racing season at Ellis Park. Here ...
The Ellis Park races all lead to Kentucky Downs stakes worth at least $1 million for Kentucky-bred horses and $600,000 for all other horses. Kentucky Downs’ Sept. 2 Mint Millions has a $2 ...
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) — Hundreds of people packed Ellis Park Saturday to watch the Kentucky Derby. Every year, Ellis Park hosts a party to watch the race held at Churchill Downs in Louisville.
In an unprecedented move, Churchill Downs will move its current spring/summer meeting to Ellis Park in the wake of 12 horse deaths since April 27. The legendary track made the announcement Friday ...
Ellis Park’s meet was scheduled to start July 7 and run through Aug. 27 but will now expand with Friday’s announcement. Ellis Park will resume racing on June 10.
Ellis Park is the right place to help Churchill Downs bounce ... And when COVID-19 delayed the Kentucky Derby in May of 2020, Ellis Park began its Summer Meet on time in July without fans in ...