LAST week’s Grade 3 Blame Stakes at Churchill Downs saw the 2024 Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan get back to winning ways, a rare enough feat for the classic winners in recent years.

Brian Hernandez guided him to a length and a quarter success over Antiquarian in the nine-furlong contest and, reminiscent of his Kentucky Derby win, Mystik Dan relaxed off the pace along the rail, cut the corner at the top of the stretch and powered home to victory – his first in six races since the Derby triumph in a three-horse photo finish with Sierra Leone and Forever Young.