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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