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Major Fed going straight to Kentucky Derby

Marty McGee|Aug 05, 2020

Major Fed wins a Jan. 1 maiden race at Fair Grounds

Amanda Hodges Weir/Hodges Photography Major Fed is being pointed to the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes on May 23 at Churchill Downs.

The connections of Major Fed considered running the Ghostzapper colt in the Runhappy Ellis Park Derby on Sunday before deciding instead to train him straight into the Kentucky Derby.

“We’re happy with where we are with him and comfortable with the points situation,” said Travis Foley, assistant to his father, Greg Foley. “Everything’s goo,d and we didn’t feel like we needed the race in between.”

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Major Fed was a late-running second behind Shared Sense in the July 8 Indiana Derby in his last start, giving him a total of 38 qualifying points. Owned by Lloyd Madison Farms IV, a Wisconsin-based partnership, the colt breezed an easy half-mile Saturday in the Churchill slop in 50.20 seconds.

“He’ll probably have three more works into the Derby, and we should be all set,” Foley said.

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