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Welcome to 2023 Kentucky Derby Prospect Snapshots, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the Triple Crown trail, usually from the Road to the Kentucky Derby schedule from which the racehorses earn points toward qualifying. The 1 ¼-mile Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve will be held May 6, 2023, at Churchill Downs.
“I’ll have to talk to the Greens (Leonard, Louis and son Jon) about where we start and where we go, but we will be looking at the Oaks and the Derby.”
Most trainers are poor handicappers, and I’m one of them, but when you train as long as I have you have to say, ‘OK, my horse is as good as I think I can make her and I wouldn’t change anything Saturday.’
Fans will have their first of six opportunities to bet on the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby (G1) Tuesday-Thursday where Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable’s Breeders’ Futurity (GI) winner Forte was made the 15-1 individual betting favorite while the pari-mutuel field of “All Other Colts and Geldings” not listed within the 38 individual betting interests was tabbed as the heavy 3-5 choice.
Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. paced all other riders at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet to secure the leading rider title with 35 wins.