Saturday's $275,000 Grade III Blame Stakes at Churchill Downs is the lead-in to the $1 million Grade I Stephen Foster on June 28, a "Win and You're In" for the Breeders' Cup Classic.

Two other horses to watch in this Saturday's Blame Stakes are Banishing, who "keeps on running huge race after huge race," and Most Wanted, who ran a good second to track-record setting Fierceness ...

BLAME STAKES . Churchill Downs, June 4, $200,000 added, value of race $198,750, 4-year-olds and up, 9 furlongs, 1:48.54 (track record, 1:47.28), track fast.

Former Triple Crown starters Mystik Dan and Sierra Leone will run in the Stephen Foster Stakes 2025 on Saturday at 6:03 p.m.

2024 Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan has become the first horse to win another race at Churchill Downs in almost 30 years.Mystik Dan returned to Churchill Downs to win the Grade 3 Blame Stakes ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mystik Dan snapped a five-race losing streak with a 1 1/4-length victory in the $270,000 Blame Stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs, where he won the 2024 Kentucky Derby.

The Mike Repole colt trained by Todd Pletcher had won a seven-furlong Grade 1 on the Kentucky Derby Day undercard, but proved ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mystik Dan snapped a five-race losing streak with a 1 1/4-length victory in the $270,000 Blame Stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs, where he won the 2024 Kentucky Derby.

Mystik Dan is set to make his return beneath the historic Twin Spires on Saturday at Churchill Downs in the $275,000 Blame Stakes (Grade 3), and trainer Kenny McPeek couldn’t be more pleased ...