In Saturday’s second race at Santa Anita, Holy Candy will be heavily favored to win a maiden race over 1 1/16 miles, which could lead to a major stakes appearance in late March or early April.
Morningline odds and Free PPs for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks Future Wager: Pool 2
Just as Hansen has some questions to answer coming off his first career defeat in the Grade 3 Holy Bull, his 12 challengers have as many – if not more – questions to answer in Saturday's Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.
State of Play, seventh in the Sam F. Davis Stakes four weeks ago, looks to rebound in Saturday's John Battaglia Memorial Stakes for 3-year-olds at Turfway Park.
Trainer Graham Motion had two horses, Cop a Tude and Went the Day Well, he was considering for Saturday's Gotham at Aqueduct, but ultimately did not enter either one.
He’s got a lovely wife and two young sons, and a professional career that has brought him the last two Eclipse Awards as champion jockey, a couple of Breeders’ Cup victories, and, this past week, the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. What Ramon Dominguez doesn’t have, yet, is a win in a Triple Crown race. Not the Kentucky Derby, nor the Preakness, nor the Belmont.
Hansen, last year’s 2-year-old champion, drew post 12 in a field of 13 3-year-olds entered to run in Saturday’s Grade 3, $400,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.
Mark Valeski’s close second-place finish in the Risen Star vaulted him onto the Derby Watch top 20 this week. He is 20-1 on the Kentucky Derby future line of Mike Watchmaker, Daily Racing Form’s national handicapper.
depending on how dominating he might be, it would come as little surprise if the winner of the seventh race Friday at Fair Grounds, a first-level allowance route for 3-year-olds, starts getting a little Kentucky Derby ink.
Six new horses are in the lineup of 23 separately listed wagering interests in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which opens its three-day run Friday at noon Eastern.
