Kentucky Derby 2021 Betting Picks
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Wide-Open Grade 3 Obeah Stakes Serves as Prep for Del. Cap
Fortune Pearl, the 3/1 morning line favorite for trainer Graham Motion, enters the race off a seventh-place finish in the Grade 3 DuPont Distaff Stakes at Pimlico May 15. Prior […]
Fortune Pearl, the 3/1 morning line favorite for trainer Graham Motion, enters the race off a seventh-place finish in the Grade 3 DuPont Distaff Stakes at Pimlico May 15. Prior to that effort the four year-old daughter of Mineshaft won an allowance optional claiming event April 4 at Keeneland after spending nearly eight months on the sideline. Fortune Pearl won the Grade 2 Delaware Oaks in 2014, and has won four of ten starts in her career. Jockey Trevor McCarthy has the mount breaking from post three.
Montana Native comfortable in Delaware
4/1 second choice, Montana Native, is trained by Cristophe Clement and enters the Obeah off an eighth-place effort in the Monmouth Beach Stakes May 24 following a nearly nine month layoff. The five year-old daughter of Yes It’s True, is a multiple minor stakes winner, and place second in last year’s Obeah Stakes and Grade 2 Molly Pitcher Stakes. Jockey Alex Cintron gets the call breaking from post seven. Montana Native has won 5 of 19 starts for earnings of nearly $400,000.
Joint Return passes class test
At 5/1, Joint Return is a logical play for trainer John Servis. The four year-old daughter of include has won 5 of 13 career starts for earnings of $443,154, and finished third in the Dupont Distaff Stakes ahead of Fortune Pearl. As a three year-old, Joint Return kept top company finishing second in both the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes and Delaware Oaks.
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Preakness Stakes 2019 Early Race Preview

One of the most historic - and controversial - editions of the Kentucky Derby is in the books and the next leg of the US Triple Crown moves to Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course for the running of the Preakness Stakes. The 1 3/16 test over the Pimlico dirt track is drawing a wide-open field of three-year-old thoroughbreds gunning for the $1.5 million purse.
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