$3.4 million on the line on Kentucky Championship Sunday
At 13h03, on September 16, 2023 • By RED MILE
The Red Mile will host the finals of The Kentucky Championship Series events on Sunday (Sept. 17) with a blockbuster 10-race program featuring $3.4 million in purse money, including eight $400,000 finals bookended by a pair of $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series finals.
Highlighting the program will be Confederate (Sweet Lou), the fastest Standardbred in all of racing this season, who comes into his event for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings with a five-race winning streak — his last win at the Red Mile in 1:46.1. Brett Pelling trains the Diamond Creek Racing-owned colt, who looks to add to his lifetime earnings of $1,321,829 coming into the action and, once again, will have Tim Tetrick in his sulky.
Confederate has tasted defeat only one time in his eight starts this season. And, while nothing is guaranteed in racing, the only horse to pin defeat on Confederate, It’s My Show, has decided to skip this encounter and, instead, is headed to Delaware, Ohio, for the Little Brown Jug.
Post time is 1 p.m.
