Stark Contrast More Likely to Target American Turf

Amerman Racing's Stark Contrast (Caravaggio), runner-up in both the GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks Mar. 21 and the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf last fall, is more likely to target the GI American Turf S. than the GI Kentucky Derby. Both races are run at Churchill Downs May 2.

He currently has 50 qualifying points for the Derby.

“He may win on the first Saturday in May, I don't think it'll be in the Kentucky Derby,” trainer Michael McCarthy said on At the Races with Steve Byk. “Being by Caravaggio out of a Quality Road mare, we just think something like the American Turf would be in his wheelhouse.”