{"id":180158,"date":"2026-04-30T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180158\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:25:08","slug":"from-churchill-downs-to-p-i-downs-casino-and-thousands-of-wins-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180158\/","title":{"rendered":"From Churchill Downs to P.I. Downs &#038; Casino and Thousands of Wins | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Thoroughbred Racing especially in Erie, are quite familiar with jockey Willie Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>He has recorded over 3,700 wins during his decades long career.<\/p>\n<p>Leading up to this year\u2019s Kentucky Derby, he looked back on his five career starts at Churchill Downs.<\/p>\n<p>Willie rode Noble\u2019s Promise to a fifth-place finish at the 2010 Kentucky Derby.<\/p>\n<p>As they turned for home, Noble\u2019s Promise had the lead before coming up short.<\/p>\n<p>Willie takes a look back on just how close he came to winning the \u201cRun for the Roses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 152nd Kentucky Derby is scheduled for Saturday, May 2, 2026, with a post time of 6:57 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>NBC and Peacock will provide coverage beginning at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of Thoroughbred Racing especially in Erie, are quite familiar with jockey Willie Martinez. He has recorded over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,139],"class_list":["post-180158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}