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JESSIE OSWALD SPORTS@NEWSANDTRIBUNE.COM Apr 28, 2021 Essential Quality, the reigning 2-year-old Eclipse Champion and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner, was named the morning-line favorite at odds of 2-1 for Saturday's 147th running of the Kentucky Derby. The Brad Cox-trained horse drew post 14 at Tuesday's pill pull.  Photo courtesy Coady Photography LOUISVILLE — The field for the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve is set as 20 horses attempt the 1 1/4-mile route under the Twin Spires of Churchill Downs, with each ...

Medina Spirit. The Kentucky Derby slips back this year in its rightful place as the keystone of the South’s rites of spring, and it’s a most welcome rebirth. For their part in all this, Thoroughbred racehorses haven’t quite gotten the memo that there has been a pandemic, so they just want to race, and that unstoppable natural power is a bracing gate-opener to the month of May, and to the rest of the Triple Crown season. The reserved seats at Churchill Downs this Friday and Saturday for the Kentucky Oaks and the Derby will be reduced by 50 percent, but that, in comparison to the almost...

April 28, 2021 Share With the rail still open and Kentucky Derby post positions dwindling, Brad Cox grew anxious about the most notable of his two horses drawing the least desired spot.  The homegrown trainer soon breathed easier. Essential Quality got something more palatable, though the hardest part awaits with the target firmly on his back.  Essential Quality is the 2-1 morning line favorite and will start from the No. 14 post for Saturday’s 147th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.  “It got a little nerve-wracking with both horses still to go and the rail still being out the...

Derby Notes: Rock Your World Makes Favorable Impression, Final Contenders Arrive On Backstretch Sponsored by: Rock Your World on track at Churchill Downs prior to the Kentucky Derby Earlier Tuesday morning, the cast for Derby 147 became fully assembled with the 6 o'clock arrival from Parx of Brooklyn Strong, and a later arrival from Keeneland by Hidden Stash and Like the King, both of whom galloped early Tuesday morning at the Lexington, Ky. track. BOURBONIC, DYNAMIC ONE, KNOWN AGENDA, SAINTHOOD – The Kentucky Derby quartet that calls the barn of trainer Todd Pletcher their headqu...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — With the rail still open and Kentucky Derby post positions dwindling, Brad Cox grew anxious about the most notable of his two horses drawing the least desired spot. The home-grown trainer soon breathed easier. Essential Quality got something more palatable, though the hardest part awaits with the target firmly on his back. Essential Quality is the 2-1 morning line favorite and will start from the No. 14 post for Saturday’s 147th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. “It got a little nerve-wracking with both horses still to go and the rail still being out there,” Co...