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Expert Pick of the Week: Louisiana Derby on March 20 at the Kentucky Derby. The 2021 Kentucky Derby is the 147th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.

Mandaloun favored in TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby Mar 15, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com Mandaloun prospered when adding blinkers in the Risen Star (Hodges Photography) The Road to the Kentucky Derby enters its most intense phase with Saturday’s $1 million TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby (G2), the first scoring race awarding 100 points to the winner. The runner-up at Fair Grounds can also advance his Kentucky Derby (G1) aspirations by banking 40 points, while the third- and fourth-plac...

California-Based Hot Rod Charlie Getting Revved Up For Louisiana Derby Sponsored by: Hot Rod Charlie, shown training for last years Breeders Cup Juvenile at Keeneland If Doug ONeill shows up in the Big Easy, you better take notice. The two-time Kentucky Derby winning trainer has invaded Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots for some major wins over the past decade and hell try to do it again from his Santa Anita base in the March 20 TwinSpires Louisiana Derby (G2), when he sends Hot Rod Ch...

Essential Quality, Mandaloun Top Nominees To April 3 Blue Grass Stakes Sponsored by: Horses race before an empty grandstand at Keeneland Racecourse on July 8 Ten of the top 11 horses on the Road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) leaderboard, which is led by recent Risen Star (G2) Presented by Lamarque Ford winner Mandaloun and undefeated champion Essential Quality, are among 148 3-year-olds nominated to the 97th running of the $800,000 Toyota Blue Grass (G2), the richest of the six graded st...

Keeping Score: Hot stove digest Published: 2/19/2021 5:57:38 PM Good morning! On a cold February day in 1964, Bob Kieras paid 69 cents for a No. 457 Scrap Book, took it home and started clipping spring training stories out of the Springfield Union. Kieras found it while he was cleaning out the attic and put it in the mail. “I turned 12 in July that year, and my passion for the Red Sox was so great, we rooted for them no matter how bad they were.” They were bad for many years, but we didn’...

Calhoun Hopes Lightning Strikes Twice With Louisiana Derby Hopeful Run Classic Sponsored by: Bret Calhoun If trainer Bret Calhoun has his way, lightning will strike twice at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots on March 20. Two years ago, the Calhoun-trained By My Standards broke his maiden on the Risen Star (G2) undercard and parlayed that score to a win in the Louisiana Derby (G2). Run Classic is in position to pull off the same feat three weeks from now in the TwinSpires.com Louisiana ...

A few months before the Kentucky Derby 2021 and with more races scheduled for the Derby Prep Race, experts have already chosen their top 10 picks to contend on the Derby. There are even early favorites among the contenders as they travel the Road to the Kentucky Derby this year. Six experts have already given their picks for the Derby. Each of them has a different opinion for each horse. To sum up all their picks, we will create our list of expert top 10 picks by including horses who have been ...

  With his 2-for-2 record and his Sham Stakes victory and his debut Beyer Speed Figure of 101 and his six-time Derby-winning trainer, Bob Baffert, Life Is Good closed Sunday as the 7-1 individual favorite in Pool 3 of the monthly Churchill Downs pari-mutuel offering. It carries the name “Kentucky Derby Future Wager” as if it is the one and only — and as if those other markets in outposts like the Nevada desert are rogue impostors.   Silly money drove the KDFW market just as it did with ...

Mandaloun rebounds with blinkers in Risen Star at the Kentucky Derby. The 2021 Kentucky Derby is the 147th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.

Graded Kentucky Derby preps in January and early February are all G3s and are worth just 10 qualifying points each to the winners. These half-dozen early races don’t often attract