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Kentucky Derby 136
Post, Horse , Jockey, Weight, Odds
1 Lookin At Lucky , [...]

Sometimes, the Kentucky Derby odds-on favorite really is the best horse; sometimes, not so much. In the last decade, the favorite has won the Run for the Roses four times — and finished seventh three times.
Year Favorite Finished
2009 Friesan Fire 18th
2008 Big Brown 1st
2007 Street Sense 1st
2006 Sweetnorthernsaint 7th
2005 Bellamy Road 7th
2004 Smarty Jones 1st
2003 [...]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The top two choices in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday have ‘em surrounded. Lookin At Lucky, the favorite, drew the rail, and Sidney’s Candy, the second choice, drew the outside post in a field of 20 when post positions were drawn on Wednesday for Derby 136 at Churchill Downs.
Devil May Care, the [...]

For the second year in a row, the pre-race favorite in the Kentucky Derby has been scratched with a leg injury, another blow to an industry searching for its first Triple Crown winner since 1978.
Eskendereya, the chestnut colt who dominated the Derby prep season and would have been a 2-1 favorite this week at Churchill [...]

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — As if trainer Todd Pletcher won’t have enough on his mind in the final two weeks
leading up to the Kentucky Derby, with as many as six potential starters in his barn including the
current favorite, Eskendereya, now he has to stress about the weather too.
Pletcher handicapped both the weather forecast and [...]

The Kentucky Derby gained the services of three more runners last weekend as Line of David, Stately Victor and Paddy O’Prado all collected enough graded earnings to vie for the glory on the first Saturday in May.
Eskendereya, Lookin At Lucky and Sidney’s Candy are the probable top three favorites, but after Mine That Bird pulled [...]

1. LOOKIN AT LUCKY (Bob Baffert, 8-6-1-1, $1,513,000). Next race: Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, May 1. Comments: The Eclipse Award-winning colt also faltered on a synthetic track in his final Derby prep, but the son of Smart Strike only needed to gain conditioning, not additional graded-stakes earnings, in the Santa Anita Derby. Having [...]

Four horses in a “one horse race!”

Line of David could be racing at the Kentucky Derby in May after winning the $1-million Arkansas Derby.
Front-running Line of David won the $1-million Arkansas Derby by a neck on Saturday at Hot Springs, propelling the 17-1 longshot into Kentucky Derby consideration after his first race on dirt.
Line of David had never before run in [...]

Zenyatta came to Oaklawn Park as visiting royalty. After romping to victory
in the Apple Blossom Invitational, her 16th win in a row, racing’s
queen stood before her adoring public and bowed her head twice.
Zenyatta high-stepped her way to the starting gate Friday in her distinctive
Radio City Rockette style. She lagged behind early as usual [...]