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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It’s that time of year again. Time to break out the stopwatches and binoculars and track the prospective starters during the all-important final two weeks leading up to another Kentucky Derby.

If April showers bring May flowers, then the garland of roses put over the withers of this year’s Kentucky Derby winner will be overflowing.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Surely a baseball manager wishes he could save a few of his team’s runs from a 14-1 blowout for the next night, when they come up short in a 3-2 loss. The same sort of principle might logically apply for a horse trainer such as Mike Maker, who came within a couple inches of sweeping the two major 3-year-old races at Keeneland this spring – and yet still finds himself without a confirmed Kentucky Derby starter.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With trainer Bob Baffert looking on, The Factor galloped Monday morning for the first time since his arrival at Churchill Downs on April 19 and for the first time since having minor throat surgery performed here last week.

Making official what had seemed obvious for more than a week, trainer Bob Baffert on Sunday announced that Jaycito would not make this year's Kentucky Derby on May 7, owing to a foot bruise that has prevented the colt from working for more than three weeks.

"You've got the super-duper official word," Baffert said Sunday morning from his home near Santa Anita.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -  Neither steady rain, a sloppy track, nor even a little thunder and lightning could keep Kentucky Derby hopefuls Mucho Macho Man and Stay Thirsty from keeping their appointed rounds and working at soggy Churchill Downs on Sunday morning.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Jockey Patrick Valenzuela will ride Santa Anita Derby runner-up Comma to the Top in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 7, co-owner Gary Barber said at Hollywood Park on Saturday. The Kentucky Derby will be the first time that Valenzuela has ridden Comma to the Top.

KENTUCKY DERBY NEWS: Track all the 3-year-olds on the Triple Crown trail

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Derby Kitten ended a big afternoon for Ken and Sarah Ramsey when rallying from last to post a 9-1 upset Saturday in the 30th running of the Grade 3, $200,000 Coolmore Lexington Stakes at Keeneland.

KENTUCKY DERBY NEWS: Track all the 3-year-olds on the Triple Crown trail

A scheduled six-furlong workout for Kentucky Derby hopeful Animal Kingdom didn't exactly work out the way trainer Graham Motion planned at Keeneland on Saturday.

KENTUCKY DERBY NEWS: Track all the 3-year-olds on the Triple Crown trail

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – After watching Pants On Fire scorch five furlongs in 58 and change eight days earlier, trainer Kelly Breen wanted a little something easier out of his Louisiana Derby winner Saturday morning at Palm Meadows. And that’s exactly what he got.

KENTUCKY DERBY NEWS: Track all the 3-year-olds on the Triple Crown trail