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Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr has been suspended after two of his horses died in the lead-up to Saturday’s 149th Kentucky Derby. Parents Pride and Chasing Artie collapsed and died at the Churchill Downs track, with the cause of death still unknown. Another of Joseph Jr’s horses, Lord Miles, has been scratched from the race following his suspension. Four horses have now died in the build-up to America’s most celebrated race. …
Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr has been suspended after two of his horses died in the lead-up to Sunday's 149th Kentucky Derby.
Four horses have died at Churchill Downs in less than a week in advance of the 149th Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
Trainer Michael Stidham added to his remarkable Oaklawn record when Proxy captured the $1-million Oaklawn Handicap (G2) April 22.
Woody Stephens trained horses that finished so close together one year at Churchill Downs that, before the race was made official, he said, "I think I just won the (Kentucky) Oaks but I don't know with which one."