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Originally Posted by Kasept

Scott,

Either way, a Jones-trained filly is in a top spot on the list.. Would be very surprised by Eight Belles though. It's Proud Spell who is the appropriate Derby filly. Will have Larry Jones on ATR today or tomorrow to clarify, but I bet he won't commit to anything until Derby-Oaks Week.

Yeah, sounds like they won't commit until then:

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/...y_hopeful.html

Trained by Larry Jones and owned by Wilmington's Rick Porter, Eight Belles is nominated for both the May 3 Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Oaks, the big race of the year for 3-year-old fillies that is run the day before the Derby at Churchill Downs. She has $210,000 in graded-stakes earnings, enough to make the Derby field.

Porter said last night that the filly's handlers would keep the Derby open as a possibility. A final decision does not have to be made until Derby week.

"I'd like to find a way to run in the Derby," said Porter, the owner of last year's Derby runner-up, Hard Spun.