![]() ![]() He’ll need a win or runner-up performance to make it. He looked promising late last year and in early winter, but a fourth-place finish in the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby left him desperate for points if he wants to run in Louisville. He’s run three times, winning once, and this looks like a Hail Mary, avoiding the more competitive Santa Anita Derby on his home turf to travel cross-country to take a shot. Trainer Bob Baffert, a perennial Derby contender, ships this one in from California to make his stakes debut. In the Wood Memorial, Secretariats stablemate Angle Light went straight to the. He’s one of a handful of horses Louisville native Dale Romans is running across the country this weekend, but hard to see this one bringing Romans Derby glory. But in his last big prep for the Kentucky Derby, the Big Red Horse did lose. Won his first race a couple of weeks ago, in his third race. In addition, in his second race, he clipped heels and didn’t finish, so essentially, he comes here having made just one lifetime start. He’s run just twice, the first time in a claiming race, from which he was taken for his current connections, and he’s never sniffed stakes company. ![]() He doesn’t need to do anything except retain fitness and soundness in order to run for the roses next month.Įnticed and Junior Alvarado winning the Grade 3 Gotham at Aqueduct NYRA/Adam Coglianese He secured his Derby spot when he won the Grade 3 Gotham at Aqueduct last month, cruising to a 2 3/4-length win. A third-place finish here might do it second-place would put him in comfortable position. It’s been nearly 20 years since Funny Cide (2003) became the last Grade 2 Wood Memorial starter to win the Kentucky Derby, parlaying a runner-up effort in Aqueduct’s signature Derby prep race into an upset victory on the first Saturday in May. In his graded stakes debut at Aqueduct last month, he finished second, well behind winner Enticed, a horse he meets here again. This is his first stakes attempt on dirt hard to believe that there are serious Derby aspirations here. He’s raced once since last October, and while he lost by only a nose, that race was a furlong shorter than this one and restricted to horses bred in New York. Firenze Fire (outside) and Manny Franco eke out a win in the Jerome NYRA/Chelsea Durand ![]()
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