Arkansas Derby Field

[cakes44]

Well if there's one trainer who knows how to point her horses to big races and have them ready to fire their best, it's Janet Davidson. I'd put her right up there with Drysdale and Frankel in this area.

[wigmore]

and running a maiden in key Derby prep is something both Drysdale and Frankel do with regularity right..

[FATPIANO]

Well if Tiago can break his maiden in a grade 1, Then anything is possible

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by FATPIANO

Well if Tiago can break his maiden in a grade 1, Then anything is possible

Didn't he actually break his maiden via DQ in a 50k MSW in January?
That horse already had 3 races under his belt before he ran in the S.A. Derby. That is a lot different than making your debut in a race like that.

[AeWingnut]

a maiden in the Arkansas Derby? is Billy Patin up?

[Bogey]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

a maiden in the Arkansas Derby? is Billy Patin up?

Buzz

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by cakes44

Well if there's one trainer who knows how to point her horses to big races and have them ready to fire their best, it's Janet Davidson. I'd put her right up there with Drysdale and Frankel in this area.

That is beautiful

[Dunbar]

What's the purse distribution for the Ark Derby? What's the 3rd place horse get? I'm wondering if that will be enough to get into the Derby.

If it's $100K, they should have made it $101K--enough to break the deadlock with the 2 horses at $100K on the earnings list.

--Dunbar

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by Dunbar

What's the purse distribution for the Ark Derby? What's the 3rd place horse get? I'm wondering if that will be enough to get into the Derby.

If it's $100K, they should have made it $101K--enough to break the deadlock with the 2 horses at $100K on the earnings list.

Answering my own question, it's $100K. If one of the horses with no graded earnings finishes 3rd, it will be in an earnings tie with Chelokee and Reporting For Duty. If the cutoff ends up being $100K, and there is only room for one more horse (with $100K earnings), how will they decide which one gets in? Is it the horse that earned the $100K first?

--Dunbar

[AeWingnut]

looked Valhol up and they don't mention his win in the Arkansas Derby on the Dallas Keen website.

[Buffymommy]

I was really hoping to see Slew's Tizzy in this race. I had high hopes for that colt. He had a nice work out last week.