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Ron Flatter notes that popular favorites for the Run for the Roses are carrying very short odds

Pedigree fun facts: Helium Although Tampa Bay Derby (G2) upsetter Helium was not an early nominee to the Triple Crown, the Kentucky-bred has a pedigree filled with classic influences.  Helium is a grandson of Distorted Humor, who has been prominent on the 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1) trail as the broodmare sire of Life Is Good (Pedigree Fun Facts) and Risk Taking (Pedigree Fun Facts). Unlike those contenders who are out of daughters of Distorted Humor, Helium descends from his male line, via Distorted Humor’s son Ironicus. An accomplished turf performer, Ironicus captured the 2015 Dixie (no...

Medina Spirit To Join Baffert Stablemate Life Is Good In San Felipe Lineup Sponsored by: Heavily favored Life Is Good held off Bob Baffert stablemate Medina Spirit by three-quarters of a length in the Sham Bob Baffert will double-team his opposition with varsity Triple Crown contenders Life Is Good and Medina Spirit in next Saturday's Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. The San Felipe is a major steppingstone to the G1 Runhappy Santa Anita Derby on April 3. “Life Is Good will work tomorrow and Medina Spirit worked today (Saturday),” said the two-time Trip...

℘℘℘ In 1907 the Epsom gallery was horrified to see an Irish owned, Irish trained (if Berkshire bred) horse, Orby, storm to victory at 100/6 in the most prestigious classic race for three-year-olds in the world, the Epsom Derby. The reaction of the top hat and tails aristocracy was to leave the parade ring for the presentation. “It’s enough to make one’s hair stand on end. How absolutely devastating that Britain’s blue riband race has been won by a peasant from Eire” snorted some Lord or another. Nor was the owner, Ted “Boss” Croker, received by the King. When news of the D...

Sponsored by: Trainer Kristin Mulhall The Catemaco story reads like a chapter right out of “Frankenstein,” Mary Shelley's classic 1818 horror novel of a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. But Catemaco's tale has a happy ending. A 4-year-old colt bred in California on March 23, 2017, Catemaco won his first start Friday by a widening four lengths at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., leading throughout six furlongs in a sprightly 1:09.08, paying $30.60 to his scattered backers and earning $36,000 for owners Twilight Racing LLC and S...