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At a time of year when Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls are focusing on two-round preparations and qualifying points, the Feb. 28 Gotham Stakes Aqueduct offers something different. The Gotham is contested over a one-turn mile, with the winner receiving 50 qualifying points for a starting spot in the Kentucky Derby. 1. Balboa (6-1 odds on […]
Entering the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes on Turfway Park On February 21, bettors were keyed in on the 1-2 finishers of the Leonatus Stakes, Street animal And Full effort . However, it was the fifth place of the local preparation, Great White which would take the biggest bite out of Saturday’s $174,835 wallet. In that […]
The Risen Star Stakes (G2) from February 14th on Fair Grounds Race Track and Slot Machines showed a bona fide Kentucky Derby (G1) contender in Paladin whose relentless drive to bring in a freewheeling leader Chip Honcho sent the first to the first of the Derby Dozen Rankings and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Top […]
The Sunland Park Derby can sometimes be seen as a byway rather than a highway on the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1). However, a look through the data shows that the New Mexico event has produced twelve Kentucky Derby starters since its inception in 2003, with Mine That Bird finishing fourth at Sunland Park […]
Pavlovian became owner/breeder J. Paul Reddam’s 22nd homebred black-type stakes winner since 2014 when he captured the Sunland Park Derby in dramatic fashion by a nose on Feb. 15 and is on track to become his first homebred Kentucky Derby (G1) starter. The gray or roan colt is a grade 1 winning millionaire Pavel which […]
In recent years, U.S.-based trainers fortunate enough to have multiple Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls might try to chart different paths toward the first Saturday in May, perhaps with one runner coming in on Gulfstream Park and another bee Aqueduct racecourseor one up Santa Anita Park and another bee Oaklawn Park. While these decisions are still […]
John Shirreffs, who trained Zenyatta to a Hall of Fame career and saddled Giacomo to win the 2005 Kentucky Derby (G1), died in his sleep on February 12 at his home in Arcadia, California. He was 80. “The industry lost a great man today,” said Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, who rode these horses […]
In commercial terms, the winners of last weekend’s Kentucky Derby (G1) trials represented – to borrow a phrase from Joni Mitchell – ‘the breadth of the extremities’. On one hand we have the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) winner. Plutarch and the kidnapper of Sam F. Davis Stakes Defector both from seven-time top sires In […]
Here’s a Triple Crown question for you. Who is the only undefeated, Grade 1 winning on dirt 3-year-old still in training for the Kentucky Derby (G1)? No cheating with Google or artificial intelligence. If you look for help from the Top 5 of most lists, like BloodHorse’s Derby Dozen, or the National Thoroughbred Racing Association […]
