The first of Daily Racing Form's workout reports leading up to the 2016 Kentucky Derby was supposed to start with a real bang, with likely favorite Nyquist scheduled to put in his penultimate work for the race Friday at Keeneland. But Mother Nature stepped in to alter those plans, with overnight rain leading trainer Doug O'Neill to postpone the work until Saturday.
Mor Spirit, the two-time stakes winner who was second in the Santa Anita Derby on April 9, was flown to Churchill Downs on Friday for the Kentucky Derby on May 7, a day after a five-furlong breeze at Santa Anita.
While his connections wait to see if there will be the necessary defections to make it into the Kentucky Derby field, Adventist worked a half-mile in 48.81 seconds Thursday morning over the Belmont Park training track.
My preferences from a pace standpoint in this Kentucky Derby are the horses that should race in the second or third flight.
Use him for a windbreak, a coat rack, a barn doorstop. It doesn't matter to California Chrome as long as you set him free in his paddock for most of the day and have a bag of Mrs. Pastures horse cookies handy on demand.
Florida Derby runner-up Majesto will bid south Florida adieu and head on to Churchill Downs after breezing a mile in 1:44.41 on a warm and muggy Thursday morning at Gulfstream Park West.
Mohaymen, the forgotten horse on the trail to the 142nd Kentucky Derby, gave a reminder that he's still in the running for the May 7 race when he breezed a half-mile Wednesday at Churchill Downs in a snappy 46.80 seconds.
In the 141 runnings of the Kentucky Derby, no jockey has ever won the race three consecutive years, but Victor Espinoza will get a chance to be the first on May 7 when he pilots Whitmore, a mount he secured on Wednesday as the dominoes fell for riders on four Derby runners.
Creator and Suddenbreakingnews finished one-two in the Arkansas Derby on Saturday to earn enough points to solidify a spot in the 20-horse field for the May 7 Kentucky Derby and thus forged their way onto the Derby Watch top 20.
Dale Romans calls his Blue Grass Stakes winner Brody's Cause a “prototype” Kentucky Derby horse – and the Giant's Causeway colt certainly has the class in his pedigree to back it up.
