Ben Colebrook has a simple goal for Knicks Go this winter at Tampa Bay Downs: do enough to return home a legitimate Kentucky Derby contender. The first of two Tampa races for the speedy gray colt will come Saturday, when the Sam F. Davis anchors an outstanding Festival Preview card.
Knicks Go surely will be favored Saturday when the Sam F. Davis Stakes is renewed at Tampa Bay Downs, but one of the more compelling reasons to fade the speedy gray colt is this: Todd has one in there against him.
Game Winner, the unbeaten winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and the current ante-post favorite for the Kentucky Derby, tops a list of 362 3-year-olds who on Wednesday were announced by Churchill Downs as early nominees to this year’s Triple Crown.
Twelve new names are in the lineup for Pool 2 of the 2019 Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which opens Friday at noon Eastern for the customary three-day run.
Road to the 2019 Kentucky Derby: Holy Bull analysis
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Road to the 2019 Kentucky Derby: Withers analysis
MUCHO GUSTO was no match for stablemate Improbable in the CashCall Futurity, but against this softer field, and over a sloppy, sealed track that he clearly adored, he romped to an easy victory.
Everyone would like it to be early May, with much better weather everywhere, baseball in full swing, and all the pieces of the Kentucky Derby puzzle fitted together. Instead, it’s early February. The weather isn’t great, at least in a lot of places. We don’t know something as basic as which teams two of baseballs brightest, youngest stars are going to play for, and the Derby puzzle pieces aren’t even all out on the table yet.
TimeformUS Kentucky Derby Prep Analysis: David Aragona takes a look at the Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019.
There is much to digest in analyzing the major Kentucky Derby prep races across the country on Saturday, including the shuffling of mounts among leading jockeys.
