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The post positions are drawn for the
2021 Kentucky Derby. After the draw, Churchill Downs provided these quotes from trainers or other connections of each of the contenders.
KNOWN AGENDA (Post 1, 6-1). Trainer Todd Pletcher: “Obviously it’s not what we were hoping for. But of course this is one of the things you can’t control. With the new (20-stall) gate, we’re hopeful that things will be better than they were in the past and the post won’t be that bad. He had an inside trip in the Florida Derby, and he handled it very professionally.”
Derby Notes: Rock Your World Makes Favorable Impression, Final Contenders Arrive On Backstretch Sponsored by:
Rock Your World on track at Churchill Downs prior to the Kentucky Derby
Earlier Tuesday morning, the cast for Derby 147 became fully assembled with the 6 o clock arrival from Parx of Brooklyn Strong, and a later arrival from Keeneland by Hidden Stash and Like the King, both of whom galloped early Tuesday morning at the Lexington, Ky. track.
BOURBONIC, DYNAMIC ONE, KNOWN AGENDA, SAINTHOOD – The Kentucky Derby quartet that calls the barn of trainer Todd Pletcher their headquarters moved another step closer to the 147th edition of America s Greatest Race Tuesday morning with solid gallops around the Churchill Downs oval.
Brian Klatsky (left) and Brendan O’Brien of BBN Racing will be enjoying the Kentucky Derby experience for the first time in 2021 thanks to Hidden Stash, shown training at Churchill Downs. (Coady Photography/Courtesy of Brian Klatsky)
Whether it involves wealth management, potential Division 1 basketball players or Thoroughbreds, Brian Klatsky’s life revolves around prospects.
No wonder the divorced single father of two sons talks fast. No wonder colleagues are deprived of sleep by late-night conversations or jarred awake by early-morning texts or calls. Klatsky has a full-time job three times over.
He is a partner in New York-based Gold Coast Wealth Management. He started and oversees New Jersey-based Team Rio, a high-powered AAU program that develops girls and boys basketball players with an eye toward competing at the highest collegiate levels. And he is a founding partner in BBN Racing, which is national in scope and is enjoying startling early success. It has produced Hidd
Derby Notes: Midnight Bourbon, Brooklyn Strong Post Monday Workouts Sponsored by:
Midnight Bourbon works at Churchill Downs on Monday, April 26
Winchell Thoroughbreds Midnight Bourbon worked five furlongs in 1:02.40 over a fast track at Churchill Downs while earlier at Parx, Mark Schwartz s Brooklyn Strong worked five furlongs in 1:00.92 to punch his ticket to Louisville for Kentucky Derby 147 for trainer Danny Velazquez.
BOURBONIC, DYNAMIC ONE, KNOWN AGENDA, SAINTHOOD – Trainer Todd Pletcher s Derby four-bagger was swinging for the fences Monday morning at Churchill Downs as they continued their preparation for this coming Saturday s big game known as Kentucky Derby 147.
Each of the well-bred youngsters galloped approximately a mile and a quarter on a sunny Kentucky morning and they all earned a thumbs up from Pletcher after they reported back to his Barn 42 on the track s backside.