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Essential Quality 2-1 favorite on Kentucky Derby morning Field Level Media 02 May 2021, 01:55 GMT+10 Essential Quality has maintained his odds as the 2-1 favorite by TwinSpires to win the 147th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday. Essential Quality will run out of the No. 14 post in the 19-horse race (King Fury was scratched), which traditionally hasn't been the successful starting point in the Derby. Middle Ground (1950) and Carry Back (1961) are the lone two horses to emerge victorious from that position at the Kentucky Derby. Essential Quality has won the 2021 Southwest Stakes an...

Essential Quality has maintained his odds as the 2-1 favorite by TwinSpires to win the 147th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

Historical Stats Essential Quality's starting gate may not have had much past success, but that's not the case for the other favorite starting next to him. Rock Your World will be starting from the No. 15 post, which is a spot that has produced six Kentucky Derby champions in the past. Not only that, but the 15th gate has been the starting spot of some recent winners, including Authentic (2020), Triple Crown champion American Pharoah (2015) and Orb (2013). So perhaps Rock Your World, who has won each of his first three career races, will bring more success to that gate. It wasn't the spot tha...

Saez rides fancied Kentucky Derby colt after 2019 DQ loss Issued on: 29/04/2021 - 20:05 4 min Washington (AFP) Jockey Luis Saez, who appeared to have won the 2019 Kentucky Derby before a disqualification for interference, will ride favorite Essential Quality in Saturday's 147th "Run for the Roses." The 28-year-old Panamanian has ridden the gray colt to four of his five wins in as many races and hopes to erase the memory of having his triumph aboard Maximum Security thrown out by race stewards two years ago at Churchill Downs in Louisville. "That's in the past," Saez said earlier this month....

20. Bourbonic 30-1             Essential Quality is the favorite because he's won each of his first five career races. The colt has also been impressive in doing so, as he notched victories at the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in November and at the Southwest Stakes and Blue Grass Stakes earlier this year. Not only will Essential Quality be looking to become only the 10th undefeated horse to win the Derby, but he's going to be starting from the No. 14 post. There hasn't been a winner to come from that gate since Carry Back in 1961. "I think it'll be a good spot," trainer Brad Cox said, per Nei...