The last three races in which 100 Kentucky Derby from Woodford Reserve qualifying points will be presented to the winner will take place on Saturday, April 5, in the Aqueduct in Modern York and the Santa Anita Park in South California and on Tuesday, April 8th, on Keeland Race course in Kentucky.
Talented 3-year-olds will be at the Staky-Stakes, which is postponed by Resorts World Casino at 6.10 p.m. ET and the Santa Anita Derby worth $ 500,000 at 7:30 p.m. ET, both on Saturday and in the renewed, shifted, at 7:30 p.m. US dollars.
Most racing horses who took part in these three races have already had experience on the way to the Kentucky Derby and several have combined a sequence of impressive winsmen, but some are in a operational race for their first attempt that requires a real outbreak performance to continue the path to the derby. We learn more about three of you …
1. Stateman
The Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey often uses as learning exercises at the beginning of a horse's career and likes to slowly put the runners into his barn. Therefore, it is not a shock that this purchase of $ 200,000 in the 2023 FASIG-TIPTON-SATOGA sale of selected yearlings in 2024. Victories in so many starts and will be tested for the first time in Wood Memorial on Saturday. Both victories in Tampa Bay Downs and 40 meters and the speed figures were not very impressive at first glance, but he quickly ended the Tampa race very quickly (about the employment of considerable problems in his last victory) and the Wood memorial was historically affable to the blows like him. I think he is an significant winning candidate about the number for McGaughey, who won this race in 1989 with Uncomplicated Goer and in 1998 with Coronados Quest.
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2. Baeza
Baeza, a purchase of 1.2 million US dollars at the Keeland September sales from 2023 September, is probably the most eminent racehorse of this trio thanks to its family tree. The McKinzie Colt was produced by the Gigantic Brown Mare Puca, the mother of 2023 Kentucky Derby, who was presented by the Woodford Reserve winner Mage and 2024 Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch. For Baeza, this is a pretty nice couple half -siblings (the same dam, other father), who will give his assignment debut in Santa Anita Derby for the coach John Shirffs, who is best known as a trainer of Hall of Famer Zenyatta, but also a three -time winner of this race. Baeza needed three starts to achieve his first victory for the owner Crk Stable and Grandview Equine (his breeder), but he won an impressive February 14th in Santa Anita when he took a miles long with 4 ¾ lengths. The 104 Equibase Speed Figure and the 93 Beyer Speed figure show that Baeza is a high-quality 3-year view, although he faces the Santa Anita Derby against Champion Citizen Bull, the DK Horse San Felipe Stakes winner and the second Barnes in Santa Anita Derby.
3. Grande
A $ 300,000 purchase from prominent owner Mike Repole at the Keeland September sale of 2023, Grande, won his career debut on January 11th in the Gulfstream Park with 2½ lengths in a miles long and then rolled with 2½ lengths in a 1/8 mile debut. He dropped a race on February 27th on February 27 when he was winning on the same track debut. Figures – 87 Beyer Speed Figure and 89 Equibase Speed Figure – For Hall of Fame Trainer Todd Plletcher, who has won the wood seven times. He is home from Hall of Famer Curlin from the graded stakes winner, from the war front, and has a Tomlinson evaluation of 410, which indicates that he should take over an “from” aisle if Modern York should see the rain that is forecast.
