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Raise Cain rallies in stretch, takes big Gotham Stakes triumph

Trainer Ben Colebrook gave jockey Jose Lezcano a leg up on Raise Cain in the Aqueduct paddock, made a quick pitstop in the film theater and then jumped into an Uber headed to John F. Kennedy Airport before the horses went to post for Saturday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes. After all, whatever was to happen in the race was now out of his control and he needed to be at Turfway Park Saturday night to saddle Scoobie Quando in the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes.

David GreningMar 04, 2023

Fountain of Youth: Champion Forte powerful in season opener

Aside from a few anxious moments, perhaps, in the run down the backstretch, the $400,000 Fountain of Youth played out about as perfectly as trainer Todd Pletcher could have hoped for his leading Kentucky Derby candidate Forte. The reigning juvenile champion rallying to a one-sided and very easy 4 1/2-length victory in his first start since capturing the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile four months earlier.

Mike WelschMar 04, 2023

Cairo wins at short odds in Irish qualifier for Kentucky Derby

Cairo, an Irish-bred Quality Road colt trained by Aidan O’Brien, moved to the fore of the European-based hopefuls for the Kentucky Derby with a two-length win in his 3-year-old debut in Friday’s $42,300 Patton Stakes at a mile on the all-weather surface at Dundalk Racecourse in Ireland.

Steve AndersenMar 03, 2023

Juvenile champion Forte starts drive to Kentucky Derby in Fountain of Youth

The much anticipated 3-year-old debut of reigning juvenile champion Forte will take place Saturday at Gulfstream Park when the top-rated Kentucky Derby hopeful goes a mile and one-sixteenth against eight rivals in the $400,000 Fountain of Youth.

Mike WelschMar 02, 2023

Cox has two leading contenders in wide-open Gotham

Eyeing Clover and Slip Mahoney won't be mentioned on many people's top 20 lists for the Kentucky Derby. But as far as Saturday's Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes is concerned, they have to be considered two of the top contenders in a seemingly wide-open renewal of the one-mile stakes at Aqueduct.

David GreningMar 02, 2023

Illness forces Arctic Arrogance out of Gotham

Arctic Arrogance, who accrued 16 Kentucky Derby points by running second in the Grade 2 Remsen, Jerome and Grade 3 Withers, will miss Saturday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes due to illness.

David GreningMar 01, 2023

Kentucky Derby: It's on to Sunland Derby for Henry Q after easy win in Mine That Bird Derby

Henry Q established himself as the early favorite for the Grade 3, $600,000 Sunland Park Derby when he obliterated his rivals in Tuesday's local stepping-stone, the $100,000 Mine That Bird Derby.

Mary RampelliniMar 01, 2023

Kentucky Derby: General Jim misses a day of training for Fountain of Youth

Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey sounded pessimistic about the chances of running General Jim in the Fountain of Youth Stakes after the colt missed a scheduled workout.

Marty McGeeMar 01, 2023

Kentucky Derby: Rebel winner Confidence Game has John Shirreffs connection

While John Shirreffs trains West Coast-based Kentucky Derby prospect Skinner, he is intimately familiar with the dam of an emerging Derby prospect in the Midwest. Shirreffs trained Eblouissante, dam of Rebel Stakes winner Confidence Game. Eblouissante was a younger sibling to the mighty Zenyatta.

Brad FreeMar 01, 2023

Kentucky Derby: McCarthy will find out what he's got in Gotham, San Felipe

Though he won the 2021 Preakness with his first Preakness starter, Rombauer, it is a reach to suggest trainer Michael McCarthy can win the Kentucky Derby with his first Derby starter. And yet, neither Lugan Knight nor Genius Jimmy can be ruled out yet.

Brad FreeMar 01, 2023

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