http://blog.kentucky-derby.net Kentucky Derby race schedule and replay, history, betting guide and everything else. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:35:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Crisp won the Santa Anita Oaks 2010. Crisp ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.50, outfinishing pacesetter All Due Respect by a neck. Blind Luck, the 2-5 favorite, closed from last on the backstretch to finish a neck behind All Due Respect. Sent off the 5-1 third choice in the seven-horse field, ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/03/santa-anita-oaks-2010.html Alphie's Bet won the $150,000 Sham Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths Saturday. Ridden by Alex Solis, Alphie's Bet ran 1 1-8 miles in 1:48.72 on Santa Anita's synthetic Pro-Ride surface. Setsuko was second as the 5-2 wagering favorite and The Program, trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, was another head back ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/03/alphies-bet-won-sham-stakes.html Blind Luck has cemented her position as a clear leader in the three-year-old filly division, and the Pollard’s Vision filly will try for her third straight Grade 1 win and fourth overall on Saturday at Santa Anita Park in the $250,000 Santa Anita Oaks (G1). Blind Luck, who was nominated to ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/03/santa-anita-oaks-2010-contenders.html Three-time Grade I stakes winner Blind Luck and rising star Amen Hallelujah are the favored individual fillies in Churchill Downs’ 2010 Kentucky Oaks Future Wager, but oddsmaker Mike Battaglia is betting that the mutuel field, or “all others,” will be the favored betting interest when the three-day pool wraps up ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/03/kentucky-oaks-future-wager.html Heavy rain forced the postponement of the $150,000 Sham Stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita. Track officials said Saturday that heavy overnight and early morning rain was expected to continue throughout the day, causing drainage problems with the synthetic track. However, they are scheduled to rain today. The Sham will be run ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/02/sham-stakes-postponed-to-march-6-due-to-rain.html Ten unproven colts will go to the gate at Santa Anita on Saturday for the 1 1/8 mile, Grade 3 Sham Stakes for 3-year-olds, a pre-lim to the Grade I Santa Anita Derby on April 3 and, more important, a big step toward earning entry into the Kentucky Derby on ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/02/sham-stakes-contenders.html From both a visual and speed figure perspective, the performance of the weekend was Eskendereya running away from the field at Gulfstream Park. Buddy's Saint certainly has an excuse for his poor performance as he got bumped and pinched pretty badly as the field went into the first turn. ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/02/eskendereya-won-fountain-of-youth.html Todd Pletcher's Connemara closed from dead last to pass a tiring pace setter, Ranger Heartly, in mid-stretch. Connemara made his big move from the half mile mark to the ¾ mile mark, clicking of an internal fraction of 22.86, and then came home in average splits to take the ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/02/connemara-won-el-camino-real-derby-2010.html Distreetly Mine set the pace and then held off all comers for the win at the Fair Grounds in a race that saw the top four horses at the 6f mark finish in that same order. Ron the Greek and Stay Put were able to rally from the back ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/02/discreetly-mine-won-risen-star-2010.html Paul Pompa Jr.s D' Funnybone opened up his 3-year-old season in style, cruising to a professional one-length win as the even-money favorite in the $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes (gr. II)Feb. 20 at Gulfstream Park. A two-time grade II winner in New York as a 2-year-old, D Funnybone disappointed in his season finale ... http://blog.kentucky-derby.net/2010/02/d-funnybone-won-2010-hutcheson-stakes.html