Colonial Downs

The 89-year-old trainer Wayne Lukas has won the Kentucky Derby four times, but not since Charismatic captured the 1999 renewal. Lukas didn’t have a Derby starter between Bravazo’s sixth-place finish in 2018 and Just Steel’s 17th in 2024. But American Promise, the second horse Lukas has ever started at Colonial Downs and first since 2012, ran his way into the May 3 Derby rolling to a 7 3/4-length victory Saturday at Colonial in the $500,000 Virginia Derby.

Bob Baffert has trained six Kentucky Derby winners, won the Breeders' Cup Classic four times, won four Dubai World Cups, and sent out winners at 39 racetracks, if not more. But Baffert has never won a race at Colonial Downs.