Steam–Hat trick on Wednesday!–Churchill Downs Day 4, Thursday, April 29, 2021: BUY PICKS ($3)
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Louisville, Kentucky updated forecast
Two Turf Stakes The Main Attractions On Thurby
Kentucky Derby week 2021 steams ahead at Churchill Downs on Thursday, April 29–affectionately known as Thurby–with an 11-program on the docket at the venerable Louisville, Ky. racetrack.
The card is highlighted by a pair of turf stakes races–the $130,000 Opening Verse Stakes for four-year-olds and upward slated for a flat mile trip on the Matt Winn Turf Course, and the $150,000 Unbridled Sidney Stakes for fillies and mares four-years-old and upward sprinting five and one half-furlongs on the grass.
In the Opening Verse, JPS Racing’s Logical Myth, who is a three-for-three on the turf going eight-furlongs, is the 3-1 morning line favorite in a field that attracted eight entrants. Jockey Luis Saez has the call on the five-year-old son of Data Link for trainer Joe Sharp.
In the Unbridled Sidney Stakes, Team Valor International’s Oleksandra (Aus), a Grade 1 winning turf sprinter, is the 3-1 morning line choice in a field that attracted nine horses in the race’s body and a pair of also eligible entrants. Joel Rosario will be astride the seven-year-old daughter of Animal Kingdom for Hall-of-Fame trainer Neil Drysdale.
Steam Has Hat Trick On Wednesday’s Program
Steam gave out three winners on Wednesday’s 10-race program at Churchill Downs and, as a result, three days into the nascent 2021 Spring Meeting in Derby City, its top picks are winning at a 31 percent clip and have finished in the money 59 percent of the time.
Post time for the first of 11 races at Churchill Downs on Thurday, April 29 is 12:45 P.M. (Eastern). Additionally, there is a $15,280 carryover in the 20-cent Derby City 6 (races 6-11, 3:27 P.M. (Eastern) post time).
Steam–Hat trick on Wednesday!–Churchill Downs Day 4, Thursday, April 29, 2021: BUY PICKS ($3)
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Louisville, Kentucky updated forecast
Racing will be conducted at Churchill Downs this spring with limited spectators, in accordance with guidelines set forth by the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the federal government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.