Road to the 2022 Kentucky Derby: Holy Bull Stakes analysis
Road to the 2022 Kentucky Derby: Holy Bull Stakes analysis
Jay PrivmanFeb 08, 2022
Road to the 2022 Kentucky Derby: Holy Bull Stakes analysis
The mutuel field, the 24th or “all others” option, is the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the third of five pools in the 2022 Kentucky Derby Future Wager. Pool 3 opens Friday at noon Eastern and runs through Sunday at 6 p.m.
Led by Breeders’ Cup winners Corniche and Echo Zulu, as well as last weekend’s significant prep winners – Early Voting, Messier, and White Abarrio – and major stakes winners Newgrange, Rattle N Roll, Slow Down Andy, and Smile Happy, a total of 312 3-year-olds have been made early nominees to this year’s Triple Crown.
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Call Me Midnight worked a half-mile in 50.20 seconds Feb. 5 at Fair Grounds, his first breeze since upsetting the Lecomte Stakes on Jan. 22, but it's far from certain this was a work toward the Feb. 19 Risen Star Stakes
Giant Game was scheduled to undergo what trainer Dale Romans described as a minor throat procedure Tuesday after the colt, he said, “displaced his palate pretty bad” when a distant eighth Saturday in the Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park.
A large field of 3-year-olds is expected when entries for the Sam F. Davis Stakes are drawn Wednesday at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla.
Corniche, the unbeaten winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and a finalist to be named champion 2-year-old male of 2021 at the Eclipse Awards on Thursday night at Santa Anita, is training at WinStar Farm in Kentucky but is not quite ready to breeze, Marette Farrell, the racing manager for his owners, Speedway Stables, said Friday.
Oviatt Class, third in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita on Jan. 1, has been sidelined with an injury that will keep him out of the major races for 3-year-olds in coming months.
Trainer Todd Pletcher won four races on Pegasus Day, including both the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational and $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf at Gulfstream Park. And he looks just as loaded again here Saturday with 10 starters in eight races that include Mo Donegal in the $250,000 Holy Bull, likely favorite My Prankster in the Grade 3 Swale, top contenders Grand Sonata and Royal Spirit in the Grade 3 Kitten's Joy, and Greatitude in the Grade 3 Forward Gal.