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Rigney Racing’s Played Hard broke on top, dictated the pace, and turned back challenges at the top of the stretch from Bellamore and Moon Swag to take the $485,000 Falls City (G3), the traditional Thanksgiving Day fixture for fillies and mares at Churchill Downs.
Rigney Racing’s Played Hard, winner of the Locust Grove (G3), headlines a field of six fillies and mares entered in Thanksgiving Day’s 107th running of the $500,000 Falls City (G3) at Churchill Downs.
This weekend marks the opening of the winter meet at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La., celebrated with six restricted stakes races as a preview for next month's Louisiana Champions day. Three stakes for state-bred fillies will be held on Friday, and three for males on Saturday.
Kueber Racing’s two-time stakes-winning filly Coach will attempt to collect her first victory in graded stakes company as the headliner in Saturday’s $300,000 Chilukki Stakes (Grade 3) at Churchill Downs.
Richard Rigney’s Coppelia sat just off the right hip of pacesetter Palm Cottage, took the lead leaving the final turn, and kicked clear to win Sunday’s $300,000 Dream Supreme, a listed stakes at Churchill Downs, by 2 ¾ lengths over Joyful Cadence.