Practical Move, upset winner of the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity, will launch his 3-year-old campaign in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes on March 4 at Santa Anita, skipping the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes on Feb. 28 at Oaklawn Park, trainer Tim Yakteen confirmed.
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According to the betting public participating in Pool 4 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which closed Sunday night, trainer Tom Amoss's best hope for the 2023 Derby runs not in the Risen Star Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds but in the filly-restricted Rachel Alexandra.
Pool 4 in the 2023 Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Sunday evening following the customary three-day run with the mutuel field once again a clear-cut favorite among 40 wagering options.
Chase the Chaos was a mere $10,000 purchase at auction and now has banked $123,000, so good on his connections, but until such time as the Kentucky Derby is contested over a synthetic racing surface, the El Camino Real Derby for the most part won’t mean much.
By now, you might have lost track of how many 3-year-old stakes horses or stakes prospects are currently trained by Brad Baffert . . . err, sorry, Brad Cox. The number is – a lot. HIT SHOW already had made the list, and more solidly staked a claim as a Triple Crown hope here by running his record to three wins from four starts in winning his stakes debut.
Litigate was one of four horses in the Sam Davis starting gate with only one win on their resumes, and three finished in the top four.
An untimely setback to the improving 3-year-old colt Newgate has knocked the Bob Baffert trainee off the Kentucky Derby trail.
Trainer Todd Pletcher will have a chance to win the Sam Davis for a seventh time when he is represented Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs by Litigate, his only entry from his eight nominations to the Grade 3, $200,000 race. Odds are, however, that his record will remain at six, given that Litigate is 5-1 on the morning line in a full gate of 12 3-year-olds.
Gun Pilot is being considered for a Kentucky Derby points race following his Feb. 4 allowance win at Oaklawn Park. Trainer Steve Asmussen said Wednesday that the horse is under consideration for the Grade 2, $1 million Rebel on Feb. 25 at Oaklawn.
People embrace the novelty of a Ketnucky Derby stranger, if only as a diversion from a worn-out script that stars the big names of the game. Trainers Danny Gargan and Aldana Spieth are relative unknowns now, but each has a contender in Saturday's Sam F. Davis at Tampa Bay Downs, a key early prep for the big dance.
