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Kentucky HBPA General Horsemen's Meeting, June 20, 2022

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We speak with jockey Tyler Gaffalione and trainer Brendan Walsh after the 2-year-old filly Intricate rolls to a 5 1/4-length victory over heavily favored Thorpedo Anna in Churchill Downs' $400K, Grade 2 Golden Rod. Gaffalione and Walsh teamed to win the 2023 Kentucky Oaks with Pretty Mischievous, who finished third in the Golden Rod.
As D. Wayne Lukas said at the Churchill Downs' toast following Just Steel's victory in the $222K, 6 1/2-furlong Ed Brown Stakes, "all these 2-year-olds get to be 3." Making the stakes victory even more special for the 88-year-old dean of American racing is the presence of his great-grandsons, in attendance with Lukas' two grandchildren Brady Wayne Lukas and his sister Kelly Lukas Roy. Video includes from left to right: David Roy holding Jonathan James Roy, Kelly Roy, Brady Wayne Lukas holding Walker Wayne Lukas and Dani Lukas. ("We got Johnny Walker!" David Roy observes) Photo of race by Jetta Vaughn for Coady Photography.
Louisville product Whit Beckman, who saddled plenty of graded-stakes winners when he was an assistant to Todd Pletcher and Chad Brown, earned his first graded-stakes victory on his own as Ribble Farms' Honor Marie closed with a rush to capture Churchill Downs' Grade 2, $400,000 Kentucky Jockey Club by two lengths over Real Men Violin. We catch up with jockey Rafael Bejarano and Beckman.
Grade 2 winner Heavenly Sunday, whose prior eight starts were all on grass, rolled to a five-length victory over Beach Walkn in Friday's $300,000 Mrs. Revere Stakes for 3-year-old fillies under jockey Florent Geroux. Afterward we speak with owner Bill Harrigan and trainer Brad Cox. Race photo in video by Coady Photography
BBN Racing's 4-year-old Trademark earned his first graded-stakes victory, nailing favored First Mission on the wire of Friday's Grade 2, $600,000 Clark Stakes at Churchill Downs.Afterward we speak with winning jockey Fernando Del La Cruz, winning trainer Vicki Oliver and Brad Cox, trainer of the 3-year-old First Mission. Coady Photography photo of race finish
Star Fortress ($14.68), 1 for 7 in Britain, exploded from last for a 10-length victory over favored Saffron Moon in the $300K, G3 Cardinal Thursday at Churchill Downs. Afterward we catch up with jockey Luis Saez and trainer Cherie DeVaux. DeVaux, in her fifth full year of training, earned her sixth graded stakes of 2023 with five different horses.
Rigney Racing and trainer Phil Bauer won Churchill Downs' traditional Thanksgiving Day feature, the Grade 2, $400,000 Falls City, for the second straight year as Xigera drew off in the stretch for a 6 1/2-length triumph under Julien Leparoux over the late-running long shot Music Street. Rigney and Bauer won last year's Falls City with the retired Played Hard. Xigera won her third straight stakes, following Churchill Downs' Seneca Overnight Stakes and the Grade 2 Mother Goose (moved from the spring at Belmont to the fall at the Belmont at Aqueduct meet). Afterward we speak with Leparoux and Bauer.
Trainer Larry Rivelli said Gerardo Corrales is no longer one of racing's best-kept secrets after the jockey guided the gelding to victory in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita.
Video begins with stretch run of the Breeders' Cup Sprint, where 2022 winner and champion sprinter Elite Power beats his frequent rival Gunite in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint at Santa Anita Park.
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