Baffert's Bullets To Try To Turn The 141st Kentucky Derby Into A 2-Horse Race
Bob Baffert hopes he's celebrating in the winner's circle at the Kentucky Derby. He just doesn't know which horse or owners would join him.
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Bob Baffert hopes he's celebrating in the winner's circle at the Kentucky Derby. He just doesn't know which horse or owners would join him.
El Kabeir has a sore foot that could knock him out of the Kentucky Derby.
Trainer Shug McGaughey is still thinking Belmont Stakes for his Kentucky Derby winner after Orb had no problems galloping a mile Thursday morning at Belmont Park.
Belmont winner Union Rags, and perhaps another 3-year-old or two, such as trainer Bob Baffert's Bodemeister and Paynter, will try to make a run at a division championship with a sizzling summer campaign.
It happened again Saturday, when Union Rags nipped the trainer's front-running Paynter at the wire and won the Belmont Stakes.
There have been 11 horses since 1978 to take the first two jewels of the Triple Crown, only to falter at the Belmont Stakes. I'll Have Another has a chance to make history -- or become No. 12.
"My own experience has been that when we are overwhelming favorites, we always lose," J. Paul Reddam said Wednesday.
I'll Have Another will begin his bid to win the Triple Crown by breaking from the No. 11 post in the Belmont Stakes.
The 2012 Preakness Stakes is all but here, the 137th running of the second jewel of the prestigious Triple Crown.
