Three Kentucky Derby Preps Saturday
The Wood Memorial, the Santa Anita Derby, and the Bluegrass Stakes will be run Saturday and if all goes well Good Magic will win the Bluegrass Stakes at Keeneland, Bolt d'Oro will win the Santa Anita Derby on the West Coast, and Enticed will win the Wood Memorial which is run at Aqueduct in New York.
The Arkansas Derby will be run next Saturday at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas and the probable favorite in that race will be Solomini.
The Wood Memorial is named after Eugene Wood, the President of Jamaica Raceway where the race was originally run. Irish War Cry won the 2017 Wood Memorial. The race is worth $1,000,000.
The race at a 1 1/8 mile will have nine contenders and the other potential winners along with Enticed are Fireneze Fire and Vino Rosso.
The Bluegrass Stakes will have a full field of 14 hoping to get enough points to get to the Kentucky Derby. The winner of the 2017 Bluegrass was Irap and it has been a while since a horse won the Bluegrass and the Kentucky Derby. The Bluegrass Stakes has been around since 1911. Toyota sponsors the race and it is worth $1,000,000.
The Santa Anita Derby looks like a showdown between Bob Bafert's Justify and Bolt d'Oro who was declared the winner of the San Felipe Stakes after a thrilling stretch run with McKinszie who was taken down for interference. Justify is lightly raced and it will be seen how much the San Felipe took out Bolt d'Oro.
Last week Gronkowski and Medelssohn won prep races in Europe and the UAE Derby. Mendelssohn's victory was very impressive.
The Kentucky Derby field today looks like a bunch of really expensive horses trained by the best trainers for the richest of the rich owners in the horse world. Doesn't look like there will be a Cinderella in the Derby this year.
The Arkansas Derby will be run next Saturday at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas and the probable favorite in that race will be Solomini.
The Wood Memorial is named after Eugene Wood, the President of Jamaica Raceway where the race was originally run. Irish War Cry won the 2017 Wood Memorial. The race is worth $1,000,000.
The race at a 1 1/8 mile will have nine contenders and the other potential winners along with Enticed are Fireneze Fire and Vino Rosso.
The Bluegrass Stakes will have a full field of 14 hoping to get enough points to get to the Kentucky Derby. The winner of the 2017 Bluegrass was Irap and it has been a while since a horse won the Bluegrass and the Kentucky Derby. The Bluegrass Stakes has been around since 1911. Toyota sponsors the race and it is worth $1,000,000.
The Santa Anita Derby looks like a showdown between Bob Bafert's Justify and Bolt d'Oro who was declared the winner of the San Felipe Stakes after a thrilling stretch run with McKinszie who was taken down for interference. Justify is lightly raced and it will be seen how much the San Felipe took out Bolt d'Oro.
Last week Gronkowski and Medelssohn won prep races in Europe and the UAE Derby. Mendelssohn's victory was very impressive.
The Kentucky Derby field today looks like a bunch of really expensive horses trained by the best trainers for the richest of the rich owners in the horse world. Doesn't look like there will be a Cinderella in the Derby this year.
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