Power Alert rebounded from his only poor effort since moving to the United States last year and did so with a flourish Friday at Churchill Downs, setting a course record en route to a three-quarter length victory over a late-charging Undrafted in the Grade 3 Twin Spires Turf Sprint.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 5/3 card at Balmoral Park.
Handicappers Matt Bernier and Kenny Peck are going head to head with $500 to wager on the Kentucky Derby Day card at Churchill Downs.
Hitting any pick four requires some degree of good fortune, and when that race includes a 19-horse Kentucky Derby, you need a little extra luck. Knowing how difficult it is, let’s still swing away, knowing the mutuel upside, starting with the Distaff Turf Mile.
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Handicappers Matt Bernier and Kenny Peck are going head to head with $500 to wager on the Kentucky Derby Day card at Churchill Downs.
It made for dramatic viewing, but jockey Flavien Prat had every intention of putting Avenge in front as late as possible in Friday’s $78,550 Ultrafleet Stakes at Santa Anita.
American Pharoah floats like a butterfly. Dortmund stings like a bee. They might be the greatest one-two punch in this city since Muhammad Ali.
El Kabeir made it through the harsh New York winter to get to Churchill Downs, but he won’t make the starting gate for Saturday’s 141st Kentucky Derby.
Keeping his record unblemished after four starts, El Deal suggested he may be the real deal with a decisive front-running victory in Friday’s $100,000 Gold Fever Stakes for 3-year-olds at Belmont Park.
