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Grade I Winner Locked Tabbed as 10-1 Morning Line Individual Favorite, Popular ‘All Others’ Listed as 2-1 Overall Favorite in Three-Day Pool

Their names may not yet be known to the masses — give them time — but the 12 horses in the first stakes race in a new season at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort hail from some familiar barns.

Joe Lee, former notched his first stakes win as a trainer when Works for Me won last Saturday’s $100,000 Notebook at Aqueduct.

“He’s acted like a horse who will like stretching out in distance to one-mile in the Iroquois,” trainer Brad Cox said.

Asmussen previously won the Iroquois with Lucky Player (2014), Astrology (2010) and Capt. Candyman Can (2008).

Iroquois kicks offs Road to Kentucky Derby 150 at the Kentucky Derby. The 2023 Kentucky Derby is the 149th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.

The Hall of Fame trainer never dreamed he would win as many big races as he has since switching from quarter horses to thoroughbreds full-time in 1991, and Lukas’ advice proved to be a turning point.

The Hall of Fame trainer never dreamed he would win as many big races as he has since switching from quarter horses to thoroughbreds full-time in 1991, and Lukas’ advice proved to be a turning point.

1st-$136,500, Maiden Special Weight, Two-Year Old Maidens, One and One Sixteenth Miles (Inner Turf) #15 MOONLIGHT (7/2): If this one gets in, watch out. Sure, it’s a field loaded with potential talent and there is little-to-no experience among all 16 possible runners, but this gray Audible colt is ready to make up for getting beat […]

1st-$52,000, Maiden Claiming $40,000, Three-Year Old and Up Maidens, Six and One Half Furlongs #7 RIDE UP (6/5): Malibu Moon colt refused to take a step down until now and Rice knows the talent this one has. Puts Jose back aboard after a far-back 7th-place finish earlier in the meet but he was shut off […]