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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 29, 2007.
 File No. 333-_____________



UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

Form S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CHURCHILL DOWNS INCORPORATED
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
   
Kentucky
61-0156015
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
   
700 Central Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky  40208
   (Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)
   
2005 Churchill Downs Incorporated Deferred Compensation Plan
(Full title of plan)
   
Robert L. Evans
President and Chief Executive Officer
Churchill Downs Incorporated
700 Central Avenue
Louisville, Kentucky  40208
(Name and address of agent for service)
 
(502) 636-4400
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copy to:
Caryn F. Price
Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP
500 W. Jefferson Street, Suite 2800
Louisville, Kentucky  40202
(502) 589-5235
 
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of Securities
to be
Registered
Amount
to be
Registered
Proposed Maximum
Offering Price
per Share (1)
Proposed
Maximum Aggregate
Offering Price (1)
Amount of
Registration Fee (1)
Common Stock, no par value and associated Preferred Share Purchase Rights(2)
45,000 shares(3)
$51.1735
$2,302,807.50
$70.70
 
(1)  
Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457.  The maximum offering price per share is based on the average of the high and low sale price of the Common Stock as reported by the Nasdaq Global Market on June 26, 2007, pursuant to Rule 457(c).
 
(2)  
The Preferred Share Purchase Rights, prior to the occurrence of certain events, are not evidenced separately from the Common Stock.
 
(3)  
The registrant also registers hereby such indeterminate number of additional shares as may be required to cover antidilutive adjustments under the 2005 Churchill Downs Incorporated Deferred Compensation Plan.
 
 Exhibit Index on Page 7.


PART II
 
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
 
Explanatory Note
 
This registration statement is for the registration of additional shares of Common Stock for issuance under the 2005 Churchill Downs Incorporated Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended June 28, 2007 (the “Plan”).  These securities are in addition to the securities registered on the registration statement on Form S-8 (SEC No. 333-127057) previously filed by the registrant on July 29, 2005.  Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of such earlier registration statement are incorporated by reference into this registration statement, except that the provisions contained in Part II of such earlier registration statement are modified as set forth in this registration statement.
 
On March 15, 2007, the Registrant’s Board of Directors adopted a proposal to amend the Plan to increase the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance thereunder by 45,000 shares, which was approved by the shareholders at the 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 28, 2007.  Accordingly, this registration statement is being filed to register the 45,000 additional shares of Common Stock.
 
Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
 
The registrant hereby incorporates the following documents in this Registration Statement:
 
(a)  The registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and the portions of the registrant’s Proxy Statement for the 2007 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting incorporated by reference therein.
 
(b)      The registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2007.
 
(c)  The registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed January 17, 2007, January 18, 2007, February 12, 2007, March 7, 2007,  March 20, 2007, May 2, 2007, and June 12, 2007.
 
(d)  The description of the registrant’s common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”), which is contained in the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 14, 1998 and the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 29, 2005, pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
 
(e)  The description of the registrant’s Preferred Share Purchase Rights contained in the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed March 20, 1998, pursuant to Section 12(g) of the 1934 Act, as amended on Form 8-A/A filed June 30, 2000 and as amended on Form 8-A/A filed September 14, 2000.
 
 
 
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All documents subsequently filed by the registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all of the shares of the Common Stock offered have been sold or which deregisters all of the shares of Common Stock then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
 
Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
 
Article XI of the registrant’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, limits the liability of directors of the registrant pursuant to the Kentucky Business Corporation Act. Under this article, directors generally are personally liable to the registrant or its shareholders for monetary damages only in transactions involving conflicts of interest or improper personal benefit for a director, intentional misconduct, known violations of law, or unlawful distributions.
 
The Amended and Restated Bylaws of the registrant require the registrant to indemnify and hold harmless each director and officer and permit the registrant to indemnify and hold harmless any other employee or agent of the registrant who is, was or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative and whether formal or informal by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the registrant, or while a director, officer, employee or agent of the registrant, is or was serving the registrant or any other legal entity in any capacity (including, without limitation, as a director, officer, partner, manager, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited liability company, employee benefit plan or other enterprise) at the request of the registrant, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including any obligation to pay a judgment, settlement, penalty or fine) incurred by such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.
 
The Amended and Restated Bylaws of the registrant further provide that the registrant shall pay expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an officer or director in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition, provided, however, that the payment of such expenses shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by the person to repay all amounts advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified.
 
The circumstances under which Kentucky law requires or permits a corporation to indemnify its directors, officers, employees and/or agents are set forth at KRS 271B.8-500, et seq.  Generally, under KRS 271B.8-500 et seq., a corporation may indemnify an individual made a party to a proceeding because he is or was a director against liability incurred in the proceeding if:
 
(1)  
he conducted himself in good faith; and
 
 
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(2)  
he reasonably believed
 
(a)  
in the case of conduct in his official capacity with the corporation, that his conduct was in its best interests; and
 
(b)  
in all other cases, that his conduct was at least not opposed to its best interests.
 
(3)  
in the case of any criminal proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
 
A corporation may not indemnify a director:
 
(1)  
in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation in which the director was adjudged liable to the corporation; or
 
(2)  
in connection with any other proceeding charging improper personal benefit to him, whether or not involving action in his official capacity, in which he was adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by him.
 
Indemnification permitted in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation is limited to reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the proceeding.
 
In addition, the registrant maintains directors’ and officers’ liability insurance covering certain liabilities which may be incurred by the directors and officers of the registrant in connection with the performance of their duties.
 
Item 8.  Exhibits.
 
The Exhibits listed on the Exhibit Index appearing on page 7 of this Registration Statement are hereby incorporated by reference.
 

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SIGNATURES
 
The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Louisville, State of Kentucky, on the  28th day of June, 2007.
 
 
CHURCHILL DOWNS INCORPORATED
   
   
 
By: /s/ Robert L. Evans                           
 
      Robert L. Evans
 
      President and Chief Executive Officer


POWERS OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Robert L. Evans and Rebecca C. Reed, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for him and her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments and post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons on the  28th day of June, 2007 in the capacities indicated.
 

 /s/ Carl F. Pollard  
Chairman of the Board (Director)
Carl F. Pollard
    
     
     
 /s/ Robert L. Evans  
President and Chief Executive Officer (Director and Principal Executive Officer)
Robert L. Evans
  
     
     
 /s/ Michael W. Anderson  
Vice President, Corporate Finance and Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
Michael W. Anderson
  
     
     
 
 
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 /s/ Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.  
Director
Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.
    
     
     
 /s/ Craig J. Duchossois  
Director
Craig J. Duchossois
    
     
     
 /s/ Richard L. Duchossois  
Director
Richard L. Duchossois
    
     
     
 /s/ Robert L. Fealy  
Director
Robert  L. Fealy
    
     
     
 
 /s/ J. David Grissom  
Director
J. David Grissom
    
     
     
 /s/ Seth W. Hancock  
Director
Seth W. Hancock
    
     
     
 /s/ Daniel P. Harrington  
Director
Daniel P. Harrington
    
     
     
 /s/ G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.  
Director
G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.
    
     
     
 /s/ Susan Elizabeth Packard  
Director
Susan Elizabeth Packard
    
     
     
 /s/ Darrell R. Wells  
Director
Darrell R. Wells
    

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
 
Exhibit
Number
 
Description of Exhibit
Page
4(a)
Articles of Incorporation of the registrant as amended (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 29, 2005) (Commission File No. 0-1469)
  
4(b)
Amended and Restated Bylaws of the registrant (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3(b) to the registrant’s Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005) (Commission File No. 0-1469).
  
4(c)
Specimen Stock Certificate (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4(d) to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 33-85012).
  
4(d)
 
 
4(e)
Rights Agreement dated as of March 19, 1998, between the registrant and Fifth Third Bank as Rights Agent (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 20, 1998, Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A filed June 30, 2000 and Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A filed September 14, 2000) (Commission File No. 0-1469).
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement among Churchill Downs Incorporated, the guarantor party thereto, the Lender party thereto and JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., as agent and collateral agent, with PNC Bank, National Association, as Syndication Agent and National City Bank of Kentucky as Documentation Agent, dated September 23, 2005, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated May 2, 2007 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed September 29, 2005 and Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 2, 2007) (Commission File No. 0-1469).
  
4(f)
2005 Churchill Downs Incorporated Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit B to the registrant’s Schedule 14A filed April 30, 2007) (Commission File No. 0-1469).
  
 
 
 
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5
Opinion of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP as to the legality of the shares being registered.
9
23(a)
Consent of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP (contained in Exhibit 5).
  
23(b)
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
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24
Power of Attorney (precedes signatures).
  

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