Hades
Gelding by Awesome Slew – The Shady Lady, by Quality Road
Bred in Florida by Ocala Stud, Joseph M. O’Farrell III, David O’Farrell, et al ($130,000 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring 2-year-old purchase by D. J. Stable)
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DRF Past Performances
Having started more horses in the Kentucky Derby than any other trainer, and attempted to get even more to the race who didn’t make it, Todd Pletcher knows the pitfalls of the Triple Crown trail as well, if not better, than most.
A year ago, things appeared to going perfectly for Forte, right up until 72 hours before the race when a foot bruise developed. It would lead to three days of drama and ultimately a scratch of the Derby favorite the morning of the race.
“It was a trainer’s worst nightmare,” Pletcher, a two-time Derby winner, recalled recently.
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 13:50
Led by 54 horses from the barn of trainer Todd Pletcher and a record 47 Japanese-based horses, a total of 346 3-year-olds were nominated to this year’s Triple Crown, it was announced Tuesday.
The figure is down from last year’s number of 369.
INDIANTOWN, Fla. – Though he has already won a Triple Crown race in his career, trainer Christophe Clement is not a name one typically associates with the Triple Crown trail.
Saturday, Clement will see if he has a potential Kentucky Derby contender in Otello, the Mucho Macho Man Stakes winner who starts in the Grade 3, $250,000 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park. It will be Clement’s first starter in a traditional Derby prep at this track, though he did run By George (sixth) in the Grade 3 Swale Stakes in 2021.
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:10
Owners who have 3-year-olds with trainer Bob Baffert that were nominated to the Triple Crown did not move those horses to other barns by Monday, meaning they will not be eligible to run in the Kentucky Derby on May 4.
Baffert is still under suspension by Churchill Downs Inc. for the post-race positive incurred by Medina Spirit who crossed the finish line first in the 2021 Kentucky Derby, but was disqualified after testing positive for a therapeutic substance that is not permitted to be in a horse’s system on race day.
Bob Baffert and Zedan Racing will drop their appeal of a ruling by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to disqualify Medina Spirit from the 2021 Kentucky Derby and issue Baffert a 90-day suspension for the horse’s positive drug test after the race, Baffert said in a social-media post Monday night.
Fierceness, the winner of the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and likely champion 2-year-old colt for 2023, closed at 8-1 to lead all individual interests in the third Kentucky Derby future bet, well behind the overall favorite, the “all others” entry, at $6.88 for every $2 win wager.
The first Kentucky Derby future wager pool of 2024 will be held this weekend, with little on the schedule to influence the odds of the 39 individual betting interests.
As is customary for the first future bet of the year, the heavy morning-line favorite, at 7-5, is the “all others” entry, which gives a bettor all of the horses from the foal crop of 2021 that are not listed as individual horses. That’s roughly 17,800 horses, if you want to do the math.
CYPRESS, Calif. – Wynstock won his stakes debut in Saturday’s Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity. Typically, a victory in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity would land the winner on a list of potential candidates for the Kentucky Derby in the spring.
Not Wynstock.
Wynstock is trained by Bob Baffert, who is currently barred from having runners in the Kentucky Derby because of a longstanding dispute with Churchill Downs management over a post-race positive found in Medina Spirit, who finished first in the 2021 Kentucky Derby for Baffert.
Otto the Conqueror edged a relentless Glengarry by three-quarters of a length Friday night at Remington Park, winning both the $300,000 Springboard Mile and 10 points for the 2024 Kentucky Derby. It was another 1 1/4 lengths back in third to Magic Grant.
The Springboard Mile, for 2-year-olds, was showcased on a card of six stakes worth a total of $625,000.
Glengarry picked up five points for the Kentucky Derby, while Magic Grant earned three; fourth-place finisher Third Street picked up two; and fifth-place finisher My Buddy Mel, one.