THE DERBY DISPATCH

Contacts: John Asher (502) 636-4586 (o), (502) 494-3626 (m) or [email protected] @JohnAsher Darren Rogers (502) 636-4461(o), (502) 345-1030 (m) or [email protected] @DerbyMedia Kevin Kerstein (502) 635-4712 (o), (610) 420-6971 (m) or [email protected] @HorseRacingKK

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CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES KICKS OFF Pletcher hopes to add a fourth win in the with SATURDAY WITH RISEN STAR WinStar Farm and Repole Stable ’s Gulfstream Park-invader Noble Indy . The 3-year-old colt by Take Charge Indy is LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Friday, Feb. 16, 2018) – There is one unblemished in the first two starts of his career after an eye- “sure thing” on this year’s Road to the : catching maiden triumph by 8 ¾ lengths on Dec. 3 and a hard- compelling drama will be abundant. fought allowance win on Jan. 11, his first start around two Over the next nine weekends, 3-year-old turns. – Kevin Kerstein will continue their quest for points in select races to secure a th ROAD TO THE KENTUCKY DERBY TOP 25 berth in the starting gate for the 144 running of the $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) on # Horse Trainer Points Saturday, May 5 at Churchill Downs. 1. Good Magic Chad Brown 24 2. Firenze Fire Jason Servis 24 The Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford 3. McKinzie 20 Reserve is action-packed this weekend with a quartet of races, 4. Bolt d’Oro Mick Ruis 14 led by Saturday’s Risen Star (GII) at Fair Grounds which is the 5. Free Drop Billy Dale Romans 14 first “Championship Series” race that will award 50 points to 6. Solomini Bob Baffert 14 7. Catholic Boy Jonathan Thomas 14 the winner and 20 to the runner-up. The third and fourth-place 8. Avery Island Kiaran McLaughlin 14 finisher will earn 10 and 5 points, respectively. 9. Instilled Regard 14 The “Prep Season” races, which award 10-4-2-1 points to 10. Enticed Chad Brown 13 the Top 4, conclude with Saturday’s at 11. Flameaway Mark Casse 10 12. Greyvitos Adam Kitchingman 10 Golden Gate and Monday’s Southwest (GIII) at Oaklawn 13. Audible 10 Park. 14. Mourinho Bob Baffert 10 Also, one spot in the Kentucky Derby could be reserved 15. Lombo Mike Pender 10 Sunday morning as the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby 16. Combatant 8 17. Tiz Mischief Dale Romans 6 concludes at Tokyo Racecourse with the Hyacinth. – Darren 18. Hollywood Star Dale Romans 5 Rogers 19. Ayacara (GB) Keith Desormeaux 5 20. Bravazo D. Wayne Lukas 4 INSTILLED REGARD IS RISEN STAR FAVE – Oxo 21. Principe Guilherme Steve Asmussen 4 22. Seven Trumpets Dale Romans 4 Equine LLC ’s California-based Instilled Regard will invade 23. Coltandmississippi Todd Pletcher 3 New Orleans on Saturday as the 8-5 morning line favorite in 24. Snapper Sinclair Steve Asmussen 2 the $400,000 Risen Star to kick off the 16-race “Championship 25. Givemeaminit Dallas Stewart 2 Series.” The 1 1/16 mile Risen Star is the ninth race on Fair UPCOMING ROAD TO THE DERBY RACES

Grounds’ 12-race program and has a scheduled post time of Date Race Track Top 4 Points 6:03 p.m. (all times Eastern). Feb. 17 Risen Star FG 50-20-10-5 Feb. 17 El Camino Real Derby GG 10-4-2-1 The 3-year-old colt by Arch is familiar with traveling to The Feb. 18 Hyacinth# Tokyo 30-12-6-3 Pelican State. He scored a comfortable 3 ¾-length triumph in Feb. 19 Southwest OP 10-4-2-1 the Jan. 13 Lecomte Stakes (GIII) for the Hall of Fame duo of March 1 Road to the Kentucky Derby* Kempton 20-8-4-2 trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and Javier Castellano . March 2 Patton* Dundalk 20-8-4-2 March 3 Fountain of Youth GP 50-20-10-5 Purchased for a hefty $1,050,000, Instilled Regard began his March 10 Gotham Aqu 50-20-10-5 journey on the Road to the Kentucky Derby in the Dec. 9 Los March 10 San Felipe SA 50-20-10-5 Alamitos Futurity (GI) when he crossed the wire in third March 10 Tampa Bay Derby Tam 50-20-10-5 behind Solomini and McKinzie but was placed second due to March 17 Rebel OP 50-20-10-5 March 17 Spiral TP 20-8-4-2 a disqualification of Solomini. March 24 FG 100-40-20-10 Chief among Instilled Regards’ challengers are Lecomte March 25 Sunland Derby Sun 50-20-10-5 second and third place finishers, ’s March 30 Burradon* Newcastle 30-12-6-3 Principe Guilherme (7-2 morning line, jockey Florent March 31 UAE Derby Meydan 100-40-20-10 March 31 Florida Derby GP 100-40-20-10 Geroux ) and Bloom Racing Stable ’s Snapper Sinclair (8-1, April 7 Wood Memorial Aqu 100-40-20-10 Adam Beschizza ), respectively. The Steve Asmussen -trained April 7 Blue Grass Kee 100-40-20-10 duo will attempt to give the 52-year-old Hall of Fame April 7 Santa Anita Derby SA 100-40-20-10 conditioner a record-tying third victory in the Risen Star. April 14 OP 100-40-20-10 April 14 Lexington Kee 20-8-4-2 Trainers Neil Howard (1992, ’98, 2004) and Todd Pletcher # Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby (2010, ’12, ’14) are the only three-time winners of the race. * European Road to the Kentucky Derby MOURINHO TOPS SOUTHWEST – Phoenix MONOMOY GIRL FAVORED IN OAKS RUN – On the III ’s Mourinho will attempt to continue his Road to the – the Derby’s companion race for success at Oaklawn Park when Hall of Fame trainer Bob 3-year-old fillies on Friday, May 4 – Michael Dubb , Baffert ships the son of from his Southern Monomoy Stables and The Elkstone Group ’s Monomoy California base to Hot Springs, Ark. for Monday’s $500,000 Girl will make her 3-year-old debut as the 8-5 morning line Southwest Stakes (GIII). favorite in Saturday’s $200,000 Rachel Alexandra Stakes (GII) Mourinho made his name known on the Road to the at Fair Grounds. Kentucky Derby after a front-running 3 ¼-length victory in The 1 1/16-mile race, with a post time of 5:05 p.m., will the Jan. 15 Stakes (GIII) at Oaklawn Park under award the Top 4 finishers points for the $1 million Longines jockey Drayden Van Dyke . The pair will reunite Monday and Kentucky Oaks (GI) on a 50-20-10-5 scale. – Kevin Kerstein break from post position 4. A horse on several insider’s Kentucky Derby lists is Robert SPOTLIGHT HORSE: GOOD MAGIC Baker and William Mack ’s Sporting Chance . The son of scored a narrow triumph in the Sept. 4 Hopeful Stakes • Eyes will be on South Florida next Saturday in what is expected (GI) at Saratoga but was subsequently sidelined after he had a to be the seasonal debut of Eclipse Award-winning Good bone chip removed from his knee. Trained by Hall of Fame Magic in the $400,000 Fountain of Youth (GII) at Gulfstream conditioner D. Wayne Lukas , Sporting Chance drew post 2 Park. Trained by Chad Brown , Good Magic still remains high and will be ridden by Luis Saez . on many expert’s Kentucky Derby lists after he broke his maiden Post time for the race is 6:10 p.m. – Kevin Kerstein in the Nov. 4 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI) by 4 ¼ lengths under jockey Jose Ortiz .

CHOO CHOO IS EL CAMINO FAVE – Only two of the • Owner information : Good Magic is owned by Bob and nine horses entered in Saturday’s $100,000 El Camino Real Kristine Edwards ’ e Five Racing Thoroughbreds and Derby at Golden Gate are nominated for the Triple Crown: Barbara Banke ’s Stonestreet Stables LLC . Bob Edwards is a ’s Choo Choo , winner of the pharmaceutical executive and started e Five Racing in 2015. last time out, and Holly and David Wilson ’s turf maiden Banke’s Stonestreet Stables was started in 2005 by her late winner Calexman . husband Jess Jackson . Stonestreet has a rich history in Choo Choo, trained by Hall of Famer Jerry Hollendorfer , Thoroughbred having campaigned 2007-08 Horse is the 9-5 morning line favorite for the 1 1/8-mile race over of the Year Curlin and ’09 Horse of the Year Rachel the synthetic Tapeta surface. Calexman, conditioned by Alexandra . Both ownership groups are seeking their first win in Vladamir Cerin , is 20-1. the Kentucky Derby.

The field for the 6:45 p.m. race also includes the filly Paved , • Trainer information a 5 ½-length maiden winner over 1 1/8 miles on turf at Santa : Chad Brown is a native of upstate New York and is pursuing his first Kentucky Derby victory (4-0-0-0). Anita for trainer Michael McCarthy . – Darren Rogers The 39-year-old multiple Eclipse Award-winning conditioner grew up going to Saratoga and became interested in horse racing RUGGERO BACK FOR HYACINTH – Triple Crown- as a child. Brown began working with harness horses while in nominated Ruggero (JPN) and Work and Love (JPN) are high school but transitioned to Thoroughbreds while in college among the 16 horses that were entered for Sunday morning’s and worked for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey . Before Hyacinth at Toyko Racecourse. training on his own, Brown was most known as the assistant to The one-mile race for 3-year-olds, which has a 12:25 EDT the late Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel . In 2017, Brown post time Sunday, concludes the three-race Japan Road to the recorded a career-high 213 victories and amassed $26,202,164 in Kentucky Derby and will award points to the Top 4 finishers earnings. – Kevin Kerstein on a 30-12-6-3 scale. Takashi Muraki ’s Ruggero (JPN), trained by Yuichi PAST PERFORMANCES & HISTORY Shikato , garnered 10 points for winning the one-mile Cattleya Sho by a half-length at Tokyo in November. Brinset.com Triple Crown Past Performances According to racing officials, the connections of three http://bit.ly/2E87Vr2 horses will consider paying the $6,000 late Triple Crown nomination fee should they win the Hyacinth. The horses are Brisnet.com Risen Star Past Performances Dark Repulser (JPN) , Meisho Isana (JPN) and Meisho http://bit.ly/2Fa5MJO Opus (JPN) . All of the aforementioned horses also are nominated to the Brisnet.com El Camino Real Past Performances $2 million UAE Derby (GII) at Meydan Racecourse on March http://bit.ly/2C2Ywk1 31. Only one invitation to compete in the Kentucky Derby will Brisnet.com Southwest Stakes Past Performances be extended with preference given to the horses with the most http://bit.ly/2ENHFCE points in the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby series. No invitation will be extended beyond the Top 4 point earners but Risen Star Stakes History if a horse also qualifies through America’s 35-race “Road to http://bit.ly/2CpUwFV the Kentucky Derby” series, the invite will be extended to the next eligible horse. Road to the Kentucky Derby Leaderboards If two or more horses have the same number of points, the http://bit.ly/1NkdWAX tiebreaker is lifetime earnings as of April 14. – Darren Rogers THE RUNDOWN Rachel Alexandra (GII) Saturday, Feb. 17, $200,000, 3yo Fillies, 1 1/16 M, Fair Grounds (R7), Top 4 Points: 50-20-10-5. 5:05 p.m. ET. TV: TVG2. Risen Star (GII) Saturday, Feb. 17, $400,000, 3yo, 1 1/16 M, Fair Grounds (R9), Top 4 Points: # Horse Jockey Trainer ML 50-20-10-5. 6:03 p.m. ET. TV: TVG2. 1. Actress On Board Marcelino Pedroza William Bennett 20-1 2. Testing One Two Diego Saenz Victor Arceneaux 6-1 # Horse Jockey Trainer ML 3. Classy Act Javier Castellano Bret Calhoun 6-1 1. High North Corey Lanerie Brad Cox 8-1 4. Wonder Gadot John Velazquez Mark Casse 4-1 2. Noble Indy John Velazquez Todd Pletcher 4-1 5. She’s a Julie Corey Lanerie Steve Asmussen 12-1 3. Givemeaminit Shaun Bridgmohan Dallas Stewart 15-1 6. Heavenly Love Julien Leparoux Mark Casse 6-1 4. Snapper Sinclair Adam Beschizza Steve Asmussen 12-1 7. Patrona Margarita Brian Hernandez Jr. Bret Calhoun 6-1 5. Instilled Regard Javier Castellano Jerry Hollendorfer 8-5 8. Monomoy Girl Brad Cox 8-5 6. Supreme Aura Joe Bravo Mike Stidham 20-1 7. Bravazo D. Wayne Lukas 10-1 8. Kentucky Club* James Graham D. Wayne Lukas 25-1 DERBY DETAIL 9. Principe Guilherme Florent Geroux Steve Asmussen 5-1 10. Ebben* Steve Margolis 30-1 THE TODD SQUAD – Trainer Todd Pletcher will attempt

El Camino Real Derby to win his third Kentucky Derby this year and become only the Saturday, Feb. 17, $100,000, 3yo, 1 1/8 M (Tapeta), (R7), seventh trainer to win the coveted race in back-to-back years. Top 4 Points: 10-4-2-1. 6:45 p.m. ET. TV: TVG/TVG2. The 50-year-old has had a Kentucky Derby starter in 17 of the last 18 years and every year since 2004, winning it with # Horse Jockey Trainer ML Super Saver (2010) and Always Dreaming (2017). Pletcher’s 1. Paved* Drayden Van Dyke Michael McCarthy 2-1 2. Blended Citizen* Kyle Frey Doug O’Neill 4-1 record in the Derby is 48-2-2-3, which puts him in a tie with 3. Could Be the One* William Antongeorgi Jack Steiner 12-1 his Hall of Fame mentor D. Wayne Lukas (48-4-1-5) for 4. Choo Choo Juan Hernandez Jerry Hollendorfer 9-5 most starters in the race. 5. City Plan* Tyler Conner Eoin Harty 15-1 Pletcher’s top 3-year-olds this year are led by 5 ½-length 6. Calexman Alonso Quinonez Vladimir Cerin 20-1 7. Epical* Tiago Pereira James Cassidy 10-1 Holy Bull (GII) winner Audible and include Magnum Moon , 8. Unlawful Act* Cristobal Herrera Matthew Troy 30-1 Impact Player , Vino Rosso , Life’s a Parlay , Noble Indy , 9. Mugaritz* Mario Gutierrez Jonathan Wong 10-1 Marconi , National Flag and Biblical . – Darren Rogers

Hyacinth BAFFLING TALENT – Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert , Sunday, Feb. 18, $169,330, 3yo, 1,600 meters, Tokyo Racecourse (R9), Top 4 Points: 30-12-6-3. 12:25 a.m. ET. TV: TVG/TVG2. the four-time Kentucky Derby winner who has a 27-4-3-3 record in the race, has assembled another promising cast of 3- Horse Jockey Trainer year-olds in Southern California. Ask (JPN)* Christophe Lemaire Hiroshi Kawachi Los Alamitos Futurity (GI) and Sham (GIII) winner Bahn Frei (JPN)* Kosei Miura Yoshito Yahagi Danke Schon (JPN)* Norihiro Yokoyama Mitsugu Kon McKinzie , Smarty Jones winner Mourinho and Breeders’ Dark Repulser (JPN)* Keita Tosaki Takashi Kanari Cup Juvenile (GI) runner-up Solomini lead the way but the Great Time (JPN)* Ryan Moore Hideaki Fujiwara 65-year-old also has Ax Man , Nero , Restoring Hope and Meisho Isana (JPN)* Yutaka Take Katsumi Minai Zulfikhar . – Darren Rogers Meisho Opus (JPN)* Hideaki Miyuki Yuji Iida Morino Last Boss (JPN)* Teruo Eda Satoshi Oehara Neko Washi (JPN)* Daichi Shibata Shinobu Hoshino WILL THIS BE THE YEAR? – Medaglia d’Oro , who Nishino Trans Am* Filip Minarik Hideyuki Mori finished fourth in the 2002 Kentucky Derby for owner Ruggero (JPN) Yuichi Fukunaga Yuichi Shikato Edmund Gann and Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel , has Sumahama (JPN)* Yusuke Fujioka Ryo Takahashi Taiki Ferveur (JPN)* Hiroyuki Uchida Mitsunori Makiura been a brilliant stallion since he entered stud duty in 2005. Vip Raising (JPN)* Daisuke Mashima Ken Kozaki Just last year he had seven Grade I winners – including top Work and Love (JPN) Yasunari Iwata Hidetaka Tadokoro Kentucky Derby contender Bolt d’Oro – and the only other Wakamiya Oji (JPN)* Hironobu Tanabe Toru Kurita stallions to accomplish that feat in a single year are Danzig ,

Mr. Prospector Storm Cat Southwest (GIII) and . Monday, Feb. 19, $500,000, 3yo, 1 1/16 M, Oaklawn Park (R9), Top 4 Points: Overall, Medaglia d’Oro’s progeny has earned more than 10-4-2-1. 6:10 p.m. ET. TV: TVG/TVG2. $81.6 million and he’s had 110 stakes winners. His stud fee for the 2018 breeding season at Darley in # Horse Jockey Trainer Lexington, Ky. is $250,000, which is one the highest fees in 1. My Boy Jack Keith Desormeaux 2. Sporting Chance Luis Saez D. Wayne Lukas North America. 3. Principe Guilherme Florent Geroux Steve Asmussen Amazingly, however, with his previous 10 crops, Medaglia 4. Mourinho Drayden Van Dyke Bob Baffert d’Oro has never produced a starter in the Kentucky Derby. 5. Road to Damascus John Velazquez Todd Pletcher That’s right: none. 6. Seven Trumpets Dale Romans 7. Retirement Fund Shaun Bridgmohan Steve Asmussen His best hope might have been Violence , who was the 8. Zing Zang Corey Lanerie Steve Asmussen winter book favorite for the 2013 Kentucky Derby after wins 9. Kentucky Club* Ramon Vazquez D. Wayne Lukas in the CashCall Futurity (GI) and Nashua (GII) at age 2. 10. Combatant Ricardo Santana Jr. Steve Asmussen However, he suffered a career-ending fractured sesamoid when 11. Ezmosh Gary Stevens Brad Cox second to eventual Derby winner Orb in the Fountain of * Not Kentucky Derby nominated Youth (GII) in his only start as a 3-year-old.

Overall, Medaglia d’Oro had nine progeny that were early BEWARE OF APOLLO – Some horse racing pundits nominations to this year’s Kentucky Derby led by Bolt d’Oro, consider “having a race at 2” to be the last so-called Derby Enticed , Higher Power and the filly Wonder Gadot . “rule” left standing. That’s understandable. His son, Montauk , also was considered to be a top Derby Apollo , who won the 1882 Kentucky Derby, is the only prospect, but was withdrawn from Derby consideration by his Kentucky Derby winner to win the “Run for the Roses” owners after undergoing a throat procedure on Monday. without racing as a 2-year-old. Bolt d’Oro, the beaten favorite in the Nov. 4 Breeders’ Cup The record of horses in the Derby without a race at 2 since Juvenile (GI), is likely to make his 3-year-old debut in the 1937 is 61-0-3-5. During that span, the only horses to finish in March 10 San Felipe (GII) at Santa Anita. the Derby Top 3 without racing at 2 were runner-ups The colt breezed five furlongs in :59.40 on Wednesday, Coaltown (1948), Strodes Creek (1994) and Bodemeister which was his fourth published workout since a muscle pull (2012) and third-place finishers Hampden (1946), Agitate delayed his 3-year-old debut. – Darren Rogers (1974), Reinvested (1982), Curlin (2007) and Battle of Midway (2017). EVERYONE LIKES A WINNER – Each of the last six Promising colts that did not race at 2 and are nominated to Kentucky Derby winners were unbeaten as 3-year-olds heading this year’s Triple Crown include Ax Man (trained by Bob into America’s greatest race, and that’s been the case in half of Baffert), Exclamation Point (Brad Cox), Life’s a Parlay the last 20 runnings. (Pletcher), Magnum Moon (Pletcher), Telekinesis (Casse) 2017: Always Dreaming (3-3-0-0) and Tenfold (Asmussen). – Darren Rogers 2016: Nyquist (2-2-0-0) 2015: (2-2-0-0) OAKS, TURF CLASSIC NOMS DUE – Nominations for 2014: California Chrome (3-3-0-0) the Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI) and the Old Forester Turf 2013: Orb (3-3-0-0) Classic (GI) (formerly known as the Woodford Reserve Turf 2012: I’ll Have Another (2-2-0-0) Classic) close Saturday. For more information: 2011: Animal Kingdom (2-1-1-0) http://bit.ly/2spFso1 – Kevin Kerstein 2010: Super Saver (2-0-1-1) 2009: Mine That Bird (2-0-1-0) TAKING SHAPE 2008: Big Brown (2-2-0-0) 2007: (2-1-1-0) The possible fields for Kentucky Derby Championship Series races 2006: Barbaro (3-3-0-0) are fluid as horsemen vie for points on the “Road to the Kentucky 2005: (3-0-1-1) Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve.” Below are known horses 2004: Smarty Jones (4-4-0-0) (with Road to the Kentucky Derby point totals) mentioned to be 2003: Funny Cide (3-0-2-0) under consideration for each race based on published news reports 2002: (4-2-0-0) and other sources. Again, the shape of these fields is fluid and some horses are considered “possible” for multiple races: 2001: Monarchos (4-3-1-0) 2000: Fusaichi Pegasus (4-4-0-0) MARCH 3 FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH – $400,000 Fountain of 1999: (7-2-2-0) Youth (GII) to be run over 1 1/16 miles at Gulfstream Park in 1998: (3-0-2-0) Hallandale, Fla.: Good Magic (24), Free Drop Billy (14), Enticed* – Darren Rogers (13), Gotta Go (0), Storm Runner (0), Strike Power* (0). Points to Top 4 : 50-20-10-5. PLAYING CATCH UP – When Always Dreaming won last year’s Kentucky Derby, he became only the third horse in MARCH 10 GOTHAM – $300,000 Gotham (GIII) to be run over the last 50 years to win his first career race in the month of one mile at Aqueduct in Ozone Park, N.Y.: Firenze Fire (24), Enticed* (13), Cove Blue (0), Kanthaka (0), Quip* (0), Strike Power* January and wear the roses. He broke his maiden on Jan. 25, (0). Points to Top 4 : 50-20-10-5. 2017 at Gulfstream Park and won the Derby 101 days later – the shortest span between markers since Brokers Tip broke MARCH 10 TAMPA BAY DERBY – $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby his maiden in the 1933 Derby. (GII) to be run over 1 1/16 miles at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Promising 3-year-old colts who displayed talent while Fla.: Avery Island* (14), Enticed* (13), Flameaway (10), Tiz Mischief* winning their first career race this year include Magnum (6), Vino Rosso (2), Quip (0), Untamed Domain (0). Points to Top 4 : Moon , who won a first level allowance/optional claiming 50-20-10-5. event on Thursday at Tampa Bay Downs to remain unbeaten in two starts. The son of trained by two-time MARCH 10 SAN FELIPE – $400,000 San Felipe (GII) to be run over 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.: McKinzie* (20), Derby winner Todd Pletcher won by two lengths in 1:39.18 Bolt d’Oro (14), Solomini* (14), Lombo (10), Ayacara (GB) (4). for one mile and 40 yards. Points to Top 4 : 50-20-10-5. Other notable 2018 maiden winners: Ax Man (trained by Bob Baffert), Exclamation Point (Brad Cox), Fascilitator MARCH 17 REBEL – $900,000 Rebel (GII) to be run over 1 1/16 (Steve Asmussen), Givemeaminit (Dallas Stewart), He Takes miles at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.: McKinzie* (20), Charge (Mark Casse), Life’s a Parlay (Pletcher), Machismo Solomini* (14), Tiz Mischief* (6) Higher Power (0), Title Ready (0). (Anthony Quartarolo), Mitole (Asmussen), Nero (Baffert), Points to Top 4 : 50-20-10-5. Restoring Hope (Baffert), Telekinesis (Casse), Tenfold (Asmussen) and Transgress (D. Wayne Lukas). – Darren MARCH 17 JEFF RUBY STEAKS – $200,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (GIII) to be run over 1 1/8 miles (S) at Turfway Park in Florence, Rogers KY: TBA. Points to Top 4 : 20-8-4-2.

MARCH 24 LOUISIANA DERBY – $1 Million Louisiana Derby (GII) to be run over 1 1/8 miles at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La.: Avery Island* (14), Catholic Boy* (14). Points to Top 4 : 100-40- 20-10.

MARCH 25 SUNLAND DERBY – $800,000 Sunland Derby (GIII) to be run over 1/18 miles at Sunland Park in Hobbs, New Mexico: TBA. Points to Top 4 : 50-20-10-5.

MARCH 31 UAE DERBY – $2 million UAE Derby (GII) to be run over 1 3/16 miles at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai: Gold Town (GB) (0). Points to Top 4 : 100-40-20-10.

MARCH 31 FLORIDA DERBY – $1 million Florida Derby (GI) to be run over 1 1/8 miles at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla.: Catholic Boy* (14), Audible (10). Points to Top 4 : 100-40-20-10.

APRIL 7 WOOD MEMORIAL – $750,000 Wood Memorial (GII) to be run over 1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct in Ozone Park, N.Y.: TBA. Points to Top 4 : 100-40-20-10.

APRIL 7 BLUE GRASS – $1 million Blue Grass Stakes (GII) to be run over 1 1/8 miles at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Ky.: TBA. Points to Top 4 : 100-40-20-10.

APRIL 7 SANTA ANITA DERBY – $1 million Santa Anita Derby (GI) to be run over 1 1/8 miles at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.: TBA. Points to Top 4 : 100-40-20-10.

APRIL 14 ARKANSAS DERBY –$1 million Arkansas Derby (GI) to be run over 1 1/8 miles at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.: TBA. Points to Top 4 : 100-40-20-10.

APRIL 14 LEXINGTON – $200,000 Lexington Stakes (GIII) to be run 1 1/16 miles at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, KY.: TBA. Points to Top 4 : 20-8-4-2.

*Under consideration for multiple races.

ROAD TO DERBY VIDEO SERIES

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