Turf Classic Ends in Thrilling Dead Heat

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Photo: Skip Dickstein
Domestic Spending (outside) gets up to catch Liam's Map (center) in the Turf Classic Stakes at Churchill Downs

Colonel Liam  reeled in Smooth Like Strait  down the Churchill Downs stretch, but was not alone at the wire as Domestic Spending  got up just in time for a dead-heat finish in the $1 million Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic Stakes (G1T).

The pair completed the 1 1/8 miles on firm turf in 1:47.99.

Smooth Like Strait held for third after setting the pace and Count Again  was fourth.

This story will be updated.

Video: Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic S. (G1T)