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The parallels between college basketball and the road to the Kentucky Derby offer familiar settings for gamblers. Saturday’s Risen Star Stakes is a signpost that indicates more serious prep races straight ahead.

Fast Pace Could Determine the Risen Star Outcome Fast Pace Could Determine the Risen Star Outcome 11 February, 2021 5:53 PM By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman Our quest to pick 50% winners in 2021 took some interesting twists last week, but at least were still on the right track. Fifth-place efforts from Known Agenda and Greyes Creek impacted our win percentage, but a victory by Jouster saved the weekend and kept us ahead of the line at 54.5%. I have to chuckle, though, at...

The Derby Dispatch: Road to Kentucky Derby Championship Season Begins With Grade II, $400,000 Risen Star Feb 11, 2021 Kevin Kerstein Note: Please open the attached pdf document or paste the following in your browser for additional information: https://bit.ly/3qaUWKc The Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series is set to kickoff Saturday in New Orleans with a field of 13 horses that were entered in the $400,000 Risen Star presented by Lamarque Ford (Grade II) at Fair Grounds.    Ove...

Horses break from the gate in the 2021 Holy Bull Stakes, won by Greatest Honour (orange saddle cloth, teal jockey silks). (Ryan Thompson/Coglianese Photo) Activity on the road to the 2021 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve is in full swing this winter. Since the last edition of this blog in early January, talented 3-year-olds have emerged in a handful of stakes races offering qualifying points for the Derby as well as in allowance and even maiden races, and the stakes will rise higher...

Sponsored by: Senor Buscador wins the $200,000 Springboard Mile by 5 3/4 lengths under Luis Quinonez Its 712 miles from Remington Park in Oklahoma City to Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots in New Orleans. Trainer Todd Fincher always wanted to make the trip to the historic local oval, but he never had the right horse for the journey. He does now. Fincher rolls into town with the undefeated Senor Buscador, who rates as an exciting newcomer in a sterling renewal of Saturdays $400,000 Ris...

Risen Star attracts field of 13 for G2 Kentucky Derby prep Risen Star attracts field of 13 for G2 Kentucky Derby prep HRN Staff Photo: Hodges Photography The top four finishers of the Jan. 12 Lecomte, led by winner Midnight Bourbon; Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) winner Keepemeinmind; and Springboard Mile winner Señor Buscador are among a deep field of 13 sophomores entered for next Saturdays Grade 2, $400,000 The finale of a 13-race program, the 1 1/8-mile Risen Star is an official stop on t...

The TDN Kentucky Derby Top 12 For Jan. 26 Monday, January 25, 2021 at 3:25 pm | Back to: Derby Top 12, Shared News T. D. Thornton Two new shooters debut on the Top 12 this week and there was a large leap forward from the previously ranked No. 10 contender all the way up to the No. 2 spot. Four qualifying races on the Road to the GI Kentucky Derby points series are on the docket for the next two weekends. 1) ESSENTIAL QUALITY (c, Tapit– TDN Rising Star Essential Quality will likely add an Ecli...

Pedigree fun facts: Midnight Bourbon Jan 25, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com The Man o’ War sire line hasn’t come up with a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner since Triple Crown sweeper War Admiral (1937), a factoid that current contender Midnight Bourbon hopes to erase. Midnight Bourbon’s sire, Hall of Famer Tiznow, has helped carry the torch for Man o’ War. Over the past century, his male line has been in danger of becoming more of a flicker than a flame at times, but it has persevered....

Essential Quality-led Derby leaderboard bracing for more steady changes Jan 23, 2021 Vance Hanson/Brisnet.com ESSENTIAL QUALITY (Coady Photography) The 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1) is less than 100 days away, but the current leaderboard looks as you might expect through the third week in January -- not overly indicative of how things will look a month from now much less three. Essential Quality, who is expected to be announced as the 2020 champion juvenile colt at this weeks Eclipse Awards...

Sponsored by: Midnight Bourbon and Joe Talamo hold off Proxy and Mandaloun to win the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds From one of the last crops by the now-pensioned Tiznow (by Cees Tizzy), Midnight Bourbon became his sires 81st stakes winner with a victory in the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans on Jan. 16. Last year, Midnight Bourbon had shown high-class form. The bay had finished second to Sittin On Go (Brodys Cause) in the G3 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at ...