LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The first sightings of the recently arrived California contingent – DORTMUND, FIRING LINE, and BOLO – were among the highlights of Monday’s Kentucky Derby-Oaks training session, which also featured a five-furlong work by BOLD CONQUEST, who still needs help to crack the Derby’s starting lineup.
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The New York State Gaming Commission on Monday approved a proposed rule that would allow horses with common ownership to run uncoupled in any stakes race worth $50,000 or more, one of two steps it took at a meeting to modify state racing rules to address short fields.
The rule now goes to a 45-day public-comment period, after which the commission can amend the rule, accept it as initially written, or reject it. Most proposed rules are accepted without substantial changes.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The consensus is that the field for this Kentucky Derby, to be run Saturday at Churchill Downs, is shaping up as the strongest in years. The consensus is that American Pharoah is the horse to beat, with many other worthy contenders meriting strong looks. And yet that won’t stop a full field – likely an overflow field – from being entered Wednesday.
Such is the nature of the Kentucky Derby in recent years. It’s almost as though with a 20-horse limit, a number of owners and trainers are of a mind that if they can run, they should run, regardless of the opposition.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Simon Callaghan’s journey to Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs with Sunland Park Derby winner Firing Line has been almost 20 years in the making, a circuitous route that began in his hometown of Newmarket, England, with stops on the East Coast and California.
Jockey Dennis Carr, who sustained a head injury in a starting gate incident on April 19 at Golden Gate Fields, was released from Highland Hospital on Friday evening and plans to return to his home in the Saratoga Springs area of upstate New York next week.
Carr had surgery the evening he went to the hospital.
“Dennis’s progress continues to be excellent,” said Dr. David Seftel, track physician at Golden Gate Fields. “He plans to complete his recuperation in New York in the company of his wife, Alisa, and their dogs.”
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Weather: Showery
Temperature: 52
Track: Fast
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Ten potential Kentucky Derby starters worked on Saturday, with only two of those breezes coming at Churchill Downs, where the weather was cloudy early and showery late, and the racetrack remained fast throughout the four-hour training session.
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