Derby Candidates
Updated: February 20, 2015 at 4:37 am
By Bill Oppenheim
Pending the outcome of this weekend’s final Classic preps, the GI Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn and the GI Blue Grass S., due to be run for the last time on the synthetic Polytrack surface at Keeneland, there are California Chrome Benoit likely to be three contenders vying for favoritism in the
GI Kentucky Derby in 3 1/2 weeks’ time at Churchill Downs. From the West Coast we have California Chrome, dominating winner of the GII San Felipe S. (Beyer 108) and GI Santa Anita Derby (Beyer 107) but by the somewhat unlikely Kentucky Derby sire Lucky Pulpit.
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