Winning Colors

For a time, Wayne Lukas was as much a part of the GI Kentucky Derby as mint juleps and roses. From 1981, when he sent out his first Derby starter in Partez, to 2000, he had at least one starter in the race every year while running a total of 38 horses. Four of them--Winning Colors, Thunder Gulch, Grindstone and Charismatic--won. But he hasn't had a starter since Bravazo (Awesome Again) in 2018 and hasn't had a winner since Charismatic in 1999. But the drought is over as the 88-year-old...

Ever-popular retired Hall of Fame jockey and current television analyst for Fox Sports and the New York Racing Association Gary Stevens joined the TDN Writers' Room presented by Keeneland Tuesday afternoon for an expansive discussion on an array of racing topics and issues. Sitting down with Joe Bianca and Bill Finley as the Green Group Guest of the Week, Stevens gave a huge personal endorsement to star 3-year-old filly Secret Oath (Arrogate) as she prepares to take on males, analyzed the shuffling of the California jockey colony, talked about his...

'TDN Rising Star' Mia Mischief (Into Mischief) looks to win her fourth straight race and first at the graded level since capturing last term's GI Humana Distaff in Saturday's GIII Winning Colors S. back beneath the Twin Spires. Closing out her 2019 campaign for the Heiligbrodts with a five-length victory in the track-and-trip Dream Supreme S. Nov. 1, she went through the ring at Fasig-Tipton a few days later, selling to Stonestreet Stables for $2.4 million. Barbara Banke returned the bay to the care of Steve Asmussen and she won...

Multiple Grade I-winning sprinter Spiced Perfection (Smiling Tiger) has been privately purchased and transferred from trainer Peter Miller to Mark Casse and will target the GIII Winning Colors S. at Churchill Downs May 31, Casse told the Churchill notes team. "She was privately purchased by Haruya Yoshida over the winter and she's been a great addition to our barn," Casse said. "I think we're going to be on target for the Winning Colors and get her 5-year-old campaign going at Churchill." Spiced Perfection recorded a bullet half-mile move in :47...