More so than any other horse race, the Kentucky Derby is handicapped by many based on historical rules. And one of those chief rules, “The Curse of Apollo,” says that MATERIALITY is highly unlikely to win the Derby because no unraced 2-year-old has won the race since, guess who, Apollo in 1882.
I’ve been on DORTMUND’s bandwagon since his win in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes in his first start this year, and I am not getting off now.
Mosler put it all together when winning the $100,000 Elusive Quality Stakes on opening day of the Belmont Park spring meet Wednesday.
American Pharoah on Wednesday night drew post 18 in a field of 20 for the 141st Kentucky Derby, in which he will start as the favorite on Saturday here at Churchill Downs.
It’s a bit of an understatement to say that the Kentucky Derby is unlike any other race in North America. Even the most casual of fans have their Derby horse, and it’s the one day of the year that can get even non-racing fans to watch horse racing.
This article will not tell you which horses to bet in the Kentucky Derby. If that’s the type of article you want, DRF.com will have many of those in the days leading up to the first Saturday in May. Instead, this article focuses on HOW to bet the Derby, particularly betting the superfecta in that race.
Tonalist and Palace Malice, winners of the last two runnings of the Belmont Stakes, will make their 2015 debuts in the Grade 3 Westchester at Belmont Park on Saturday.
Friday’s pick five at Churchill Downs is an all stakes sequence beginning in race 7 and ending with the Kentucky Oaks.
Habitat enters this season playing second fiddle to stablemate Mission Brief, but he will be the first 3-year-old trotter from trainer Ron Burke’s stable to venture onto the road to the Hambletonian Stakes. A multiple stakes-winner in 2014, Habitat will get his campaign started Saturday when he faces seven foes in the $133,170 Dexter Cup for 3-year-old trotters at Freehold Raceway.
When it comes to issues involving racing, trainer Rick Violette knows the importance of speaking up. Violette, who began training horses in 1977, has been a vocal advocate for horses, horsemen and the industry as a whole, and on Saturday he will saddle Upstart in the Kentucky Derby.
