Elite Eight
By Bill Oppenheim
With next Saturday’s GI Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park (100 points to the winner) and Keeneland’s GIII Coolmore Lexington S. (10 points) the only remaining Derby preps with points, there are now eight colts which dominate the GI Kentucky Derby discussion, pending the confirmation of American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) as one of those ‘elite eight’ (apologies for the basketball reference) in Arkansas.