Bloodhorse News editor Byron King presents his derby dozen with a review of the leading competitors for the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve on May 3.
The latest list of King reflects the results of Sam F. Davis Stakes on February 8 in Tampa Bay Downs and will look at a full schedule for the derby preparations in the next three weeks.
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1. Sovereignty
For the first time this winter he put together two published breeze per week, with a half miles moving in the Payson Park Training Center in: 49.60 July 7th after a similar one: 49.20 January 31 January. If he can continue this, he can continue a kind of consistent breeze pattern, his prospects, the necessary basis for training and willingness for two preparations by Kentucky Derby, are increasing significantly after an unpredictable schedule at the beginning of winter. He has a lot of racing potential, especially over a classic distance, as he found in the Street Sense Stakes on October 27th in Churchill Downs with five lengths through his triumph of the Flow-Past-Field-Triumphs.
2. Barnes
After he has recorded two sprints, including the seven-furgon-san Vicente Stakes, there is a route on deck. The Hall of Fame coach Bob Baffert, a six-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, stated the rebel sticks on February 22nd in Oaklawn Park or the DK horse San Felipe Stakes in Santa Anita Park, the races that are considered. Both races are 1 1/16 miles. Barnes has five Furlongs in: 58.80 in Santa Anita February 11, a low step in his first breeze since February 1.
3. East Avenue
The youngsters of the leaked Fanduel Breeders' Cup, presented by Taa Favoriten, who on February 15 on February 15 at the Fair Grounds, on which he faces a dozen rivals over 1 1/8 miles, to take the action. Remember that at the beginning of the breeder of the breeder of the breeder on November 1, this front manager had stumbled at Del Mar and was never challenged in ninth. His quick work for coach Brendan Walsh.
4. Citizen Bull
The Juvenile Male of last year, which was awarded the Eclipse Award, a Wire-to-Wire winner of Robert B. Lewis Stakes on February 1st in Santa Anita, seems to be resumed in the coming week based on the approximate two-week gymnastics standards . For Bob Baffert trainees after a race. His victory in Robert B. Lewis was easily reached without early or overdue pressure. While other qualified points need the Kentucky Derby on May 3 with 60 points, Citizen Bull is already convenient on the basis of historical trends.
5. Opportunities McPatrick
Last year with 2, he won both the seven-furgonian hopeful missions and the one miles long champagne in-ingredient race, in which a wealth of derby winners has started over the years, but not since the beginning of 2010. Juvenile form has not been The prerequisite for derby success. It was decades ago, and both breeds are one-gymnastics competitions that do not test endurance as much as two gymnastics routes. Think very high of this overdue stallion foal, despite its lucky sixth in his only two-gymnastics start in the youngster with a ponderous breeder. Planned starts at Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby and Toyota Blue Gras Stakes should offer a barometer of his two-gymnastics routing ability.
6. Burnham Square
Sometimes a trainer decides to ensure that the Holy Bull Stakes winner skipped the fountain of youth missions and is waiting for the Florida derby instead of eight weeks. However, coach Ian Wilkes sees both the youth fountain of March 1st and the derby on March 29 as crucial building blocks for this gelding, which still showed some signs of Greenness in February 1. “I think this horse needs a few races. You don't want him to make mistakes in the Kentucky Derby, ”said Wilkes during the podcast“ Bloodhorse Monday ”.
7. Journalism
After two delicate breeze at the end of January, journalism received a stiffer work on February 9, which was administered in Santa Anita in Santa Anita in Santa Anita with his Michael McCarthy-Desized Staffen Phosphorescence. Journalism was stronger at the finish line, and both horses were given a hand that crowded overdue, and a sixteenth mile behind the finish. The work can be seen online on TV 1/ST TV. Since he won from Curlin and already as the winner of the Dual Route, including the Futurity of Los Alamitos, he is one of the most crucial candidates to the San Felipe to the San Felipe.
8. Sandman
A cut behind some of the better 2-year-olds last autumn, behind sovereignty, Jonathans and others, this well-grown, steep colt, seems to have made progress over the winter in the Oaklawn Park. He first won an optional applicant on December 13th on December 13th and then turned upside down by gathering Southwest Stakes for the second time on January 25th after a restless start and a wide journey. A polished training after the southwest in Oaklawn on February 9 from 1: 01.40, which was published on the website of the Kentucky Thoroughed Association, was reached by his driver without an urge.
9. Coal battle
He is not as striking as others in the morning, with his fastest five-furgon training this year, 1: 02.20 were coordinated in Oaklawn on February 10, but it produces in the afternoon. He is 4 against 4 on Dirt, including three victories, which were crowned by Remington Springboard Mile Stakes and the Smarty Jones Stakes on January 4 in Oaklawn. Although the latter race was ponderous – 1 1/16 miles in 1: 46.43, which produces an 84 equibase -speed number – contributed a sluggish pace. The rebel is next.
10. Speed King
The southwest had a modest opening district, followed by quick factions on half the mile and the six-furgonian call when American promise chose the pressure on Speed King. Although the slowly started Sandman in Speed King's in the lead on the alley, this gray and/or Roan had a lot left and galloped. He worked five Furlongs on February 8 on February 8 in Oaklawn under a stop by Jockey Rafael Bejarano. Coach Ron Moquett is planning a more sedate exercise this week and “that tells us whether we will go to rebels or do something else.”
11. Rodriguez
As handsome as Citizen Bull won the Robert B. Lewis Stakes, arouses stables and second Rodriguez almost as much. He seemed to lose the focus when he was intimidated between horses in the background, but he is a stallion foal that should benefit from continued races. He took a gigantic step forward when he brought his virgins second to the lead and was then seasoned in the Lewis. On February 11, he returned to the work tab, a positive sign of failure that the hunting of a champion in Citizen Bull had not turned it off.
12. Disco time
On Saturday, the promoting Star Stakes should throw the quality of the slowly running LECOMTE inserts with four participants from the race, but the disco time that the Lecomte won with a restless journey is none of them. He has not worked since the race, which means that he was entering into the final position in the ranking of the derby. Soon without children. Trainer Brad Cox told Marcus Hersh from Daily Racing Form that the 3-for-3-Colt was “ok” and training after a “diminutive setback”. The stallion foal is pointed out to one of the most crucial last preparations at the end of March or early April.
