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Hopefully, we'll all be as accurate with our Derby selections as the weathermen were when predicting the heavy rainfall that passed through the Louisville area, allowing trainers to accurately adjust their workout schedules for those key final Derby preps.
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Practical Move, the leading 3-year-old in California, and Reincarnate, third in two graded stakes in Arkansas this year, worked quickly Friday at Santa Anita for trainer Tim Yakteen in advance of scheduled starts in the Kentucky Derby on May 6 at Churchill Downs.
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Since the filly Regret did it in 1915, only two horses have won the Kentucky Derby having made just three previous starts. IThis year, Kingsbarns and Mage come into the Derby having each made just three starts.
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The dark bay foal's white markings were distinctive, so much so that he was nicknamed “Gaudy” by the farm staff. But his personality didn't match the moniker at first. “He was somewhat shy when he was with his mother,” breeder Amy Moore recalled of the youngster at her South Gate Farm in Virginia. “He'd hide behind her in the stall.” But now? Forte has come into his own.
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Ten potential Kentucky Oaks fillies worked within about a 12-minute window following the first renovation break on a somber Thursday morning at Churchill Downs after Kentucky Derby contender Wild On Ice suffered a catastrophic injury to his left hind leg while pulling up after a work shortly after the track opened at 5:15 a.m. Wild On Ice was later euthanized.
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Raise Cain turned in his final work for the Kentucky Derby on Thursday morning at Keeneland as trainer Ben Colebrook continues to weigh his jockey options for the colt.
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Skinner, third in the Santa Anita Derby on April 8, gained a berth in the Kentucky Derby on May 6 after Wild On Ice sustained a fatal injury during training early Thursday at Churchill Downs.
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Two Phil’s completed his major preparation for the May 6 Kentucky Derby working a smooth five furlongs at 7 a.m. Thursday at Hawthorne Racecourse.
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Kentucky Derby hopeful Wild On Ice was euthanized Thursday morning after suffering a catastrophic injury to his left hind leg at Churchill Downs in a pre-dawn workout intended to prepare him for the Derby on May 6.
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A serious drill by the two Japanese contenders in this year's Kentucky Derby, Derma Sotogake and Continuar, and a test run with the addition of blinkers for Sun Thunder highlighted Wednesday's Derby-Oaks training session at Churchill Downs.
