By Jay Privman
Daily Racing Form

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Kempton Park outside London won't make anyone's top 10 list of must-see European racetracks. Alan Shuback, in his excellent recent book, "Global Racing," said the sport at Kempton "has always been of a rather tasty meat-and-potatoes variety." But on Wednesday night, Kempton became a rather important, though out-of-the-way, detour on the road to the Kentucky Derby. It was the site of the inaugural Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes, a race that, for the first time this year, guaranteed a horse a spo ...

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