Gun Runner Wins For Funner in Foster

By Margaret Ransom

Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm’s Gun Runner broke alertly from the gate, sped straight to the lead and never looked back en route to an impressive seven-length romp in Saturday’s $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) at Churchill Downs.

With regular jockey Florent Geroux in the irons, the chestnut son of Candy Ride sped through splits of :23.59, :47.23 and 1:10.69 for three-quarters of a mile with Stanford and Breaking Lucky in hot pursuit, easily increased his advantage to five lengths past the eighth pole in 1:34.86, switched leads to the left shortly thereafter when Geroux briefly… (more)