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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 in the coming weeks as trainers pick seek viable paths for their horses to secure a spot in the Chu...

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 lately; his 3-year-old debut not expected until next month. At the same time, Circa Sports is darin...

Fair Grounds: Midnight Bourbon, Mandaloun Expected To Point For Risen Star Sponsored by: Lecomte Stakes winner Midnight Bourbon Steve Asmussen's assistant trainer Scott Blasi reports that Saturday's 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. Midnight Bourbon earned 10 Kentucky Derby points for his Lecomte win and is currently third in the s...

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, there are some notable successes in the not-too-distant past, including G1 Preakness winners War of W...

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. Previously unbeaten Mandaloun was in position to challenge in upper stretch but lacked the necessary rally, f...