Saturday April 6 will have a half dozen competitors for the Kentucky Derby that is approaching leaps and bounds. They will be three major matches whose main attraction is the number of valid points for the qualifying series. The first place occupies 100 points and the second 40 units, amounts that will immediately tie a place for the first Saturday of May at Churchill Downs.
Prior to the stellar chapter, we will see a grappling between two high caliber fillies that will measure their strength at the Ashland, the last preparatory race for the Kentucky Oaks.
Jaywalk, left buried his followers in his most recent performance that also cost the job to Joel Rosario, now Javier Castellano will take the reins of John Servis pupil and will surely be the favorite, however in the group there is a thundercloud that is called Feedback, unbeaten in two starts and belonging to the famous Chad Brown block, which paints for champion.
Of the Blue Grass, Saturday’s stellar test at Keeneland, a Kentucky Derby winner has not emerged in the last decade, Street Sense was the most recent winner, in 2007, from the maximum test of the Kentucky circuit.
On this occasion, 14 copies of the 2016 generation were registered, all of them winners, except Parsimony who has been sent to an unthinkable and impossible mission, since he does not know the way to victory until now.
At present few steeds have been highlighted by the power of its closure, most are imposed by a good game or by staying close to the initial step. Win Win Win, seems to be fine-tuning his status as a closer. In his previous effort he failed to crystallize his attack and had to settle for a discreet third place. The champion Irad Ortiz Jr., will repeat in the saddle of the grandson of Sunday Silence, with many possibilities to improve positions in the fearsome two corners.
Vekoma disenchanted in the Fountain Of Youth, won by Code Of Honor, coming in third, although it gave us the impression that it was not a defeat totally attributable to his performance, because the one who fell asleep was Manny Franco who did not place the red one near the step as the scion of Candy Ride likes.
In the group we see a three-year-old wanting to emulate the steps of Animal Kingdom, who won the Kentucky Derby after participating in the Turfway Park high school. Somelikeithotbrown, descendant of Big Brown, did the same, won the two matches and now will have the opportunity to show his real achievements when facing great adversaries.