Take a bow, Wesley Ward. After somehow losing a couple baby races to begin the Keeneland meet, he finished up the juvenile racing here this April by winning TEN straight, including a pair on Thursday, naturally all with first timers. (There are no races for 2-year-olds on Friday, closing day.)

To put that in perspective, the chances of winning 10 straight coin flips is 1 in 1028. And that's a two-outcome event, not a race that can have up to 12 runners.

Further surprising is that people still line up to run their 2-year-olds against him. These juvenile races drew large fields all meet, and on multiple occasions, the Keeneland racing office "split" the race to create two races when they attracted more than 20 entries on a given day.

One has to wonder if opposing horsemen will eventually opt to wait until later in the spring to unveil their youngsters, at which time Ward's first-string rockets have already graduated from the maiden ranks. Of course, Ward's dominance has been on display at Keeneland for years and this hasn't happened en masse yet. Perhaps trainers are simply conceding defeat for the chance to get a start for their runners and be better prepared next out. 

Royal Ascot promises to be a logical spot for some of these Ward youngsters, coming up in June.