Bettors made the “all others” entry in the fourth Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool the 9-2 favorite over 37 individual entries when the pool closed on Sunday night, according to a list of odds distributed by the pool’s administrator, Churchill Downs.
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Mesquite, runner-up in the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes, is off the Kentucky Derby trail with what is suspected to be a soft-tissue injury, trainer Cherie DeVaux said Thursday.
Mesquite breezed Jan. 30 at Fair Grounds but has not had a workout since. DeVaux said Mesquite will be examined by Dr. Larry Bramlage in Kentucky next week.
“He’s off the Derby trail,” DeVaux said. “It’s something we’ve been monitoring. Dr. Bramlage needs to see the horse and come up with a plan.”
Mesquite was removed from betting for this weekend's Kentucky Derby Future Wager.
Wed, 02/11/2026 - 13:36
The Phipps Stable may no longer operate with the size and scope it once did, but it still is very much an active participant in Thoroughbred racing. Its numbers may currently be the lightest they’ve been, but there is at least one colt who carries the hopes of getting this legendary stable back to the spring classics.
WHO'S HOT
Todd Pletcher. One week after winning the Grade 3 Holy Bull with Nearly, Pletcher won the Sam F. Davis with Renegade, who made a solid 3-year-old debut, closing on a Tampa Bay Downs track that favored forwardly placed runners. Pletcher will look to keep the momentum rolling Saturday with Courting in the Grade 2 Risen Star.
Paladin, the winner of the 2025 Remsen Stakes, has been made a tepid 8-1 favorite among the 39 individual horses included in the fourth pool of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, according to a list of odds released by the pool’s administrator, Churchill Downs, on Tuesday.
WHO’S HOT
Nearly opens as the 10-1 favorite on the Derby Watch Top 20 after a dominant 5 3/4-length victory last Saturday in the Grade 3 Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park. He has now won three straight races after a head-scratching debut and will point to the Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 28.
Golden Tempo successfully stretched out from six furlongs to 1 1/16 miles in a professional, if not overly fast, victory in the Grade 3 Lecomte on Jan. 17. The Risen Star on Feb. 14 should tell more.
Wed, 02/04/2026 - 11:29
Churchill Downs this year will run on the Sunday prior to the Kentucky Derby for the first time since 2010. The track will also run its opening-day card during the afternoon rather than at night, the track said on Wednesday.
The addition of the Sunday, April 26, card means that Churchill will run live every day except Monday from opening day on April 25 until the Derby card on Saturday, May 2.
For 21 consecutive years there wasn’t a Kentucky Derby run in which Todd Pletcher didn’t have a starter.
Until 2025. Thirty-six hours before the race, Grande, who had finished second in the Wood Memorial four weeks earlier, was scratched due to a cracked heel in his right front foot. Grande was Pletcher’s only entrant in a race in which he started multiple starters 20 of 24 years in which he ran. Thus, the longest streak of consecutive Derby appearances was over.