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By The Editors
By The Editors
Our thoughts on the 2011 Kentucky Derby card
Happy Kentucky Derby day! We’ve asked our contributors to share their thoughts on the graded races on the Kentucky Derby card. We’ll add replays as they become available.
Roundup of links, quotes, photos and videos
2011 Kentucky Derby Replay
Results & Payouts
G3 Twinspires Turf Sprint Stakes (5F)
Race 6 | 1:19 PM ET
By Adam Wiener
If you like speed, this is your race.
Obvious favorite Chamberlain Bridge (2-1) is just three races removed from his impressive BC Turf Sprint win last November. In a G3 prep last time out, he was taken to the lead, presumably as a … Read More >
By Valerie Grash
The Kentucky Oaks is Where It's At
Admit it. Injured contenders falling by the wayside; highly touted colts failing to perform to expectations; and generally unsatisfying, unpredictable results in the Derby preps have you feeling confused, pessimistic or even downright depressed. Uncle Mo, The Factor, To Honor and Serve, Rogue Romance, Premier Pegasus, Soldat, Brethren…the lengthy list of disappointments grows exponentially as the first Saturday in May draws nearer, while Brilliant Speed, Midnight Interlude, Animal Kingdom, Watch Me Go, Twice the Appeal and Toby’s Corner join a motley list of likely Derby starters. It’s enough to make your head spin.
Honestly, don’t you think it’s time you came … Read More >
By Dana Byerly
In a year where there is still so much uncertainty surrounding the Kentucky Derby contenders, one thing is certain about Kentucky Derby 137: there will be a LOT of media coverage. But this hasn’t stopped our founder, Jessica Chapel, from starting an intriguing new project called Kentucky Confidential.
The Kentucky Derby is one of the most heavily covered events in American sports, but rare is the outlet that treats it as a storytellers’ paradise.
That’s how we plan to cover the Derby.
The site, which is free for visitors, will be launching on April 26 and offer a broad … Read More >
By Blinkers Off
The Animal Planet Hypothesis, which places the show “Jockeys” behind much of this week’s Derby intrigue — including a $93 bomb on Oaks Day, the scratching of I Want Revenge and the victory by Mine That Bird — gathered strength Saturday night when word came up through reliable channels that the cable network had actively lobbied trainer Bennie Woolley to put rider Chantal Sutherland on the back of the far-fetched winner.
Sutherland was a featured performer on the show in its first season, and she might have gotten the mount had Square Eddie not been pulled out of the race. When … Read More >
By The Editors
It’s not surprising the bad and weird news the morning of the Kentucky Derby would come from trainer Jeff Mullins and IEAH. We don’t need to rehash the firestorm and skullduggery that surrounded Big Brown last year, or the stunning news that Mullins was blowing a syringe full of a drug sold under the name “Air Power” into the mouth of a horse in the detention barn the day of the Wood Memorial.
If anyone was going to scratch out of the Derby, it was likely favorite I Want Revenge.
A wise and veteran New York scribe, upon hearing the news said, … Read More >
By Blinkers Off
The longer Oaks Day goes, the lengthier the span of time between races. When the seventh race lazed into view — around 1:40 p.m. — there were 30 minutes to post, and it was time to fidget then time to ramble.
Rich swells from Millionaires Row, the exclusive boxes on the sixth floor, slid into the Media Only elevator before the door closed wielding attractive cocktails and an inflated sense of entitlement. When the door opened, it was upon a rolling, shifting sea of humanity.
The grandstand ground floor felt too crowded, not Who-concert-in-Cincinnati crowded, but bad enough, with betting lines … Read More >
By Blinkers Off
No surprise when the media is treated like dogs, but today we actually looked like mangy mongrels after tramping through the Churchill barn area all morning as monsoon-strength rains passed through, courtesy of a laughing God.
Who needs this? Why couldn’t all the panicky newspapers commit a final mercy killing and lay off the rest of us so we could stay home, sleep in and stay dry?
Did the late entry of Atomic Rain have anything to do with this ? More importantly, why doesn’t Kelly Breen, in his first Kentucky Derby with that horse and West Side Bernie, like us?
“We’d been … Read More >
