Adriano

[Payson Dave]

Lane's End winner Adriano, prepping for a start in the April 19 Lexington Stakes, may go in the Kentucky Derby instead. "We wouldn't run him in both races," Motion said. "I'd say at this point we're leaning a little bit more toward the Derby than the Lexington" (Thoroughbred Times). In Adriano's only dirt start, the Fountain of Youth, the colt finished ninth, although whether that was because of the surface or because he became unsettled in the paddock is uncertain. Motion said he would send Adriano to Churchill this week to work over the track.