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Calm before the storm: Kentucky Derby favorite Essential Quality one week before the Run for the Roses
Godolphin s likely Kentucky Derby (G1) favorite
Essential Quality worked five furlongs in 1:00.40 early Saturday morning at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., to headline a quintet of hopefuls for the 147
th Run for the Roses that put in their final works for the 1 ¼-mile classic.
Also working on a cloudy but pleasant morning beneath the Twin Spires were Juddmonte Farms
Mandaloun (five furlongs in 1:00), Klaravich Stables
Highly Motivated (five furlongs in 1:00.80, Erv Woolsey and Keith Asmussen s
Super Stock (five furlongs in 1:01.20) and Fern Circle Stables and Three Chimneys Farm s
Derby Notes: Defection Of Caddo River Makes Room For Brooklyn Strong; Lanerie Picks Up Mount On Sainthood Sponsored by:
Hector Ramos guides Florida Derby winner Known Agenda through a Sunday morning gallop at Churchill Downs
Shortleaf Stable s homebred
Caddo River was taken out of Kentucky Derby consideration Sunday morning by trainer Brad Cox because of an elevated temperature.
The defection of Caddo River moves Mark Schwartz s
Brooklyn Strong into No. 20 on the Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard. Trained by Daniel Velazquez, Brooklyn Strong is scheduled to work Monday morning at 6 o clock (all times Eastern) at Parx near Philadelphia, Pa. If all goes well, Brooklyn Strong would leave at 6 p.m. with an early Tuesday morning arrival at Churchill Downs anticipated.
Churchill: 17 Oaks, Derby Hopefuls Log Final Breezes Sponsored by:
Known Agenda breezes inside Sainthood at Churchill Downs on Friday, April 23
On a cool Kentucky morning, a total of 17 Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks horses put in their final timed workouts before next weekend s editions of the $3 million Derby and $1.25 million Oaks.
The fastest move of the morning was a half-mile drill in :46.20 by Keepmeinmind, with Dynamic One, one of four Derby workers for Todd Pletcher, having the second-fastest clocking of the 108 at the distance in :47.80.
Other Derby workers for Pletcher were Bourbonic (half-mile in :49.60) and Known Agenda and Sainthood (five furlongs together in 1:01.
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Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Like the King Apr 22, 2021 John Mucciolo/TwinSpires.com (Coady Photography/Turfway Park)
M Racing Group’s Like the King picked up 100 points on the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series following a one-length tally in the $240,040 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) at Turfway Park on March 27. The winner endured nine panels on the Tapeta surface in 1:50.22 beneath Drayden Van Dyke, recording his first graded stakes triumph.
Like the King has won or placed in each of his six career races, and moved his lifetime line to 6-3-2-1, $200,680. He debuted at Belterra Park in a five-furlong dash on July 29 and finished second-best. Stretching out and moving to the lawn second out, the son of Palace Malice led from gate-to-wire in posting a 7 1/2-length win. The chestnut colt came home third in an allowance test at Keeneland, prior to capping his solid two-year-old season with an allowance tally at Turfway. He was runner-up in the John Battaglia Memori