As the Keeneland spring meet fast approaches, I am sharing this post comprised of photos I took of morning training in 2024 and 2025. Click here to see my previous posts about Keeneland.
Multiple graded stakes placed San Siro, 2024. The Brendan Walsh trainee most recently finished third in the Grade III Essex Handicap at Oaklawn.
A pony rider gives the thumbs up, 2024.
A trio of Brad Cox trainees, 2024.
A horse zooms by, 2024.
2024 champion three year old male Sierra Leone gallops ahead of the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes, which he would win.
Horses are framed by spring foliage, 2024.
Trainer Brendan Walsh gives 2023 Kentucky Oaks winner Pretty Mischievous a hug, 2024. This was one of my favorite photos of the year.
Roger Horgan gallops Pretty Mischievous, 2024.
A horse rounds the far turn, 2024.
Dubai World Cup winner Hit Show walks back to the barn, 2024.
2025 Preakness Stakes runner Clever again hangs out at the barn of Steve Asmussen, 2024.
Hit Show gets hot walked, 2024.
Panning with Caio Caramori trainee The Toner, 2024.
An outrider watches over the track, 2024.
Multiple graded stakes winner First World War, 2024.
A Ben Colebrook trainee takes a stroll inside the walking ring, 2025.
Jockey John Velázquez breezes 2025 Kentucky Oaks runner Bless the Broken.
Romain Técher jogs graded stakes winner Look Forward, 2025.
Graded stakes winner Pyrenees sows his oats out on the track, 2025.
Spring is in full bloom, 2025.
Kriss Bon takes multiple grade 1 winner Chancer McPatrick out to the track, 2025.
Dominick Merritt takes millionaire multiple graded stakes winner Mystic Lake out to the track, 2025.
Kentucky Derby hopeful Universe heads out to the track, 2025.
Grade 1 winner Candied heads back to the barn.
Smiles in the Cherie DeVaux shed row, 2025.
A set of Brad Cox trainees heads out to the track, 2025.
I recently made a video comprised of over 500 frames I took last April in Kentucky. You will see some of the photos from this post in the video. Click here to watch it.
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Wonderful!!