Churchill Downs: Baffert's Usha leads Winning Colors field

Grade 1 winner Usha is set to face seven rivals when she headlines the 23rd running of the $250,000 Winning Colors (G3), the featured event on Monday’s Memorial Day card at Churchill Downs.

Run at six furlongs, the Winning Colors goes as race 8 at 4:22 p.m. EDT. The first of nine races will get underway at 12:45 p.m.

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Owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman and trained by Bob Baffert, Usha most recently finished third in the Derby City Distaff (G1) on Kentucky Derby Day in her first start as a 4-year-old. Last season, the daughter of Tiz the Law crushed the La Brea (G1) field by 5 1/4 lengths. Jockey Florent Geroux has the mount and will break from post 7.

The Winning Colors field also includes Roxelana Stakes winner One Magic Philly, multiple stakes winner Foie Gras and Kapoor, who enters the race on a four-race win streak.

The race is named in honor of Winning Colors, who became the third filly to win the Kentucky Derby in 1988. Winning Colors is one of five Kentucky Derby victors, and the second filly winner, to have a Churchill Downs stakes race named in her honor. She joins Alysheba, Aristides, Regret and Street Sense to have Churchill Downs events in their names.