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Undefeated Life Is Good Made Early 6-1 Individual Favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager Jan 19, 2021 Farm’s undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade III) winner Life Is Good was made the 6-1 individual morning line favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”) but the pari-mutuel field of “ All Other 3-Year-Olds” is expected to be the overall choice in the three-day wager that begins Friday. While Life Is Good was made the individual favorite in Pool...

Life Is Good Tabbed Individual Favorite In Second Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool Sponsored by: CHC Inc and WinStar Farms undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade 3) winner Life Is Good was made the 6-1 individual morning line favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”), but the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds” is expected to be the overall choice in the three-day wager that begins Friday. While Life Is Good was made the individual favorite in Poo...

Count ’em: 14 new names to consider in Kentucky Derby odds By Ron Flatter January 18, 2021 2:36pm While Nevada bookmakers were keeping up with the comings and goings of points preps for the 2021 Kentucky Derby, they polarized the extremes in their futures books. Life Is Good is no longer the unanimous favorite or co-favorite. Not after William Hill Nevada shortened Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Essential Quality to 7-1. He appears to be taking more action than he is offering...

Fair Grounds: Midnight Bourbon, Mandaloun Expected To Point For Risen Star Sponsored by: Lecomte Stakes winner Midnight Bourbon Steve Asmussens assistant trainer Scott Blasi reports that Saturdays Lecomte Stakes (G3) winner Midnight Bourbon came out of the race in fine order. Asmussen indicated following the win that the Winchell Thoroughbreds 3-year-old son of Tiznow would be pointed to the $400,000 Risen Star (G2) at 1 1/8 miles on February 13 at Fair Grounds In New Orleans, La. Mid...

Triple Crown Weekend Prep Report Card: Midnight Bourbon Aging Well Sponsored by: One Kentucky Derby qualifying points race was held over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, but there were a couple of other races worth looking at. The points race was the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes from Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La., a 1 1/16-mile contest offering 17 Derby points to the top four finishers (10-4-2-1). While no winners of the Lecomte have gone on to capture the G1 Kentucky Derby, t...

Midnight Bourbon leads all the way in Lecomte Jan 17, 2021 by James Scully/TwinSpires.com Midnight Bourbon made all the running in the $200,000 Lecomte Stakes (G3), leading wire-to-wire for Winchell Thoroughbreds and Steve Asmussen in the first of three Kentucky Derby qualifiers at Fair Grounds. Joe Talamo was up on the Tiznow colt, and Midnight Bourbon is a half-brother to Grade 1 winner Girvin, who captured the Louisiana Derby (G2) and Risen Star S. (G2) at Fair Grounds in 2017. Previousl...

Las Vegas The Lecomte Stakes has forever been a blush of springtime hope in the middle of winter. It is always looked at as being loaded with so much potential that it is impossible not to stop and smell the promise of roses. Here we go again with Saturday’s $200,000 Grade 3 points prep for the Kentucky Derby. Mandaloun brings in a 2-for-2 record for presumptive trainer of the year Brad Cox. Midnight Bourbon, Red N Wild and Arabian Prince finished in the money in their previous Derby preps. G...

Equibase Analysis: Regular Guy With Fancy Pedigree Ready To Excel In Lecomte Sponsored by: Carpe Diem winning the 2015 Blue Grass. His half brother Regular Guy (by Bernardini) is a contender in the Lecomte A field of 11 is entered to run in the Grade 3, $200,000 Lecomte Stakes, the stepping stone to the Risen Star Stakes and to the Louisiana Derby, all run at Fair Grounds on the “Road to the Kentucky Derby.” As is usually the case for newly turned 3-year-olds in early Kentucky Der...

Unbeaten Mandaloun draws post 10 in Lecomte Stakes Jan 11, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com Mandaloun made it 2-for-2 in an allowance at Churchill Downs (Coady Photography) Trainer Brad Cox has other Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls in his barn in addition to Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) hero Essential Quality, and one of them – Mandaloun – takes his first test on the trail in Saturday’s $200,000 Lecomte Stakes (G3) at Fair Grounds. Himself unbeaten, the Juddmonte Farms homebred attract...