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The Derby Dispatch: Road to Kentucky Derby Championship Season Begins With Grade II, $400,000 Risen Star Feb 11, 2021 Kevin Kerstein Note: Please open the attached pdf document or paste the following in your browser for additional information: https://bit.ly/3qaUWKc The Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series is set to kickoff Saturday in New Orleans with a field of 13 horses that were entered in the $400,000 Risen Star presented by Lamarque Ford (Grade II) at Fair Grounds.    Over the next nine weekends, 3-year-old Thoroughbreds will continue their quest for points in select ra...

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...

Essential Quality, Life Is Good Top Individual Choices In Third Kentucky Derby Future Wager Sponsored by: Godolphin's Eclipse Award-winning colt Essential Quality and CHC Inc and WinStar Farm's undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade 3) winner Life Is Good were made the 8-1 individual morning line favorites in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”), but the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds” is expected to be the overall choice in the three-day wager that begins Friday. Pool 3 of the KDFW will open Friday at noon (all times Eastern) and close Sunday at 6...

Sponsored by: Candy Man Rocket and jockey Junior Alvarado winning the Sam F. Davis Stakes Junior Alvarado travelled from his winter base of Gulfstream Park to Tampa Bay Downs for their Festival Preview Day and won two of their graded stakes, earning Jockey of the Week honors for Feb. 1 through Feb. 7. The award, which is voted on by a panel of racing experts, is for jockeys who are members of the Jockeys' Guild, the organization which represents more than 950 active riders in the United States as well as retired and permanently disabled jockeys. Alvarado was given a leg up on Candy ...

Sponsored by: Stephen winning the Coronation Futurity under Justin Stein David Clancy has his early Queen's Plate triactor picked out. There are 195 calendar days, and plenty of races to be run before the gates open on the 162nd edition of Canada's most famous horse race. While it's far too early to speculate as to which horses will go postward in the $1 million, 1 ¼ mile classic at Woodbine on August 22, the horseman with three early contenders attached to his name is sporting a big smile these days. “I think it's very special,” said Clancy, who bred the trio of Giant Waters,...