LEXINGTON, Ky. – Brian Klatsky and his partners in BBN Racing have been agonizing over the Kentucky Derby points standings, but somebody tell them they can stop worrying. Hidden Stash, in all likelihood, will be carrying the blue and white silks of the far-flung ownership group when the 147th Derby is run May 1 at Churchill Downs in Louisville.

Hot Rod Charlie, the Louisiana Derby winner, will have Flavien Prat aboard in the Kentucky Derby on May 1, trainer Doug O’Neill said Monday.

Prat was aboard Hot Rod Charlie for a five-furlong work at Santa Anita on Saturday, accomplished in 1:01.20 for five furlongs.

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Grade 3, $200,000 Lexington Stakes, 1 1/16 miles, Keeneland, April 10, 2021
(20 Derby qualifying points for first, 8 for second, 4 for third, 2 for fourth)

Winner: King Fury, by Curlin
Trainer: Kenny McPeek
Jockey: Brian Hernandez Jr.
Owner: Fern Circle Stables and Three Chimneys Farm LLC
Beyer Speed Figure: 95

Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby, 1 1/8 miles, Oaklawn, April 10, 2021
(100 Derby qualifying points for first, 40 for second, 20 for third, 10 for fourth)

Winner: Super Stock, by Dialed In
Trainer: Steve Asmussen
Jockey: Ricardo Santana Jr.
Owner: Erv Woolsey and Keith Asmussen
Beyer Speed Figure: 92

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Keith Asmussen, the 79-year-old patriarch of one of racing’s most successful families, was spending time on Sunday at the barn with son Steve Asmussen, as he has on so many mornings through the years. 

But this visit was unlike any other.

King Fury ran back to the form that made him a stakes winner last fall when he splashed to an 18-1 upset Saturday at rainy Keeneland in the Grade 3 Lexington Stakes, a race that seems unlikely to produce a starter for the Kentucky Derby.

The $200,000 Lexington was a 20-8-4-2 qualifier for the May 1 Derby, but King Fury was among those who had no points coming into the 1 1/16-mile race, which was run over a sloppy track. Proxy, the 2-1 favorite in a field of nine, entered with 34 points, but after finishing an uninspiring fourth, he is not expected to proceed to Louisville.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Like the King, who punched his ticket to the Kentucky Derby by winning the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby on Turfway's Tapeta, began his serious preparations for the Derby with an in-company work on the turf Saturday morning at trainer Wesley Ward's Keeneland base.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Hot Rod Charlie, the Louisiana Derby winner, worked five furlongs in 1:01.20 on Saturday morning at Santa Anita as he moves on toward the Kentucky Derby on May 1, but it was the person on his back, as much as the quality of the work, that was noteworthy.

Flavien Prat was up for trainer Doug O’Neill, who said Prat would have the mount pending the decision of the colt’s regular rider, Joel Rosario.

Rosario is also the regular rider of Concert Tour, who was set for his final Derby prep later Saturday in the Arkansas Derby for trainer Bob Baffert.

Rock Your World galloped 1 1/2 miles on Friday at Santa Anita, six days after his win in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby in his main-track debut.

Unbeaten in three starts, Rock Your World is scheduled to have workouts on April 17 and April 24 at Santa Anita in advance of the Kentucky Derby on May 1 at Churchill Downs.

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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The initial thought when Known Agenda stepped out on the racetrack Friday morning at Palm Beach Downs to work for the first time since his victory in the Grade 1 Florida Derby was the fact he was not equipped with the blinkers that have seemed to take him to the next level in his last two starts. The second impression, after watching Known Agenda breeze a very easy half-mile in 50.37, is that he’s probably not the type of horse who is going to wow anybody, blinkers or not, in the morning.