'All Other Colts/Geldings' Close As 4-5 Favorite In First Derby Future Wager For 2023

Forte Made Favorite in KY Derby Future Wager Pool 5 (Forte after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile / Coady Photography) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Eight weeks in advance of the $3 million Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I), champion Forte, winner of the Fountain of Youth (GII) in his 3-year-old debut, closed as the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky.- With the Kentucky Derby 12 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of "All Other 3-Year-olds" closed as the 2-1 favorite in Pool 4 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) and Champion 2-Year-Old Male Forte was the 8-1 second choice. Meanwhile, Hoosier Philly, the lone filly in the 39 individual betting interests, closed as the 11-1…

With the Kentucky Derby still 15 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of "All Other 3-Year-old Colts and Geldings" closed as the 2-1 favorite in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) and Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI) winner Forte was the 7-1 second choice. Other horses who attracted interest from bettors: Kentucky Jockey Club (GII) and…

LOUISVILLE, Ky.- With the Kentucky Derby still 15 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of "All Other 3- Year-old Colts and Geldings" closed as the 2-1 favorite in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) and Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI) winner Forte was the 7-1 second choice. Other horses who attracted interest from bettors: Kentucky Jockey…

Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) will run through Sunday, Jan. 22, at 6 p.m. (ET). This future wager offers 40 separate betting options, with 38 individual entrants, as well as one for "all other males," and an additional one for "all other fillies." While we are many months and numerous prep races away from solidifying a field for…

Three-time Grade 1 winner Forte (#13), the presumptive champion two-year-old male, will attract support among 38 individual interests in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW), but the pari-mutuel field of "All Other 3-Year-Old Colts and Geldings" (#40) has been established as the 6-5 morning line favorite. The three-day wager, which…

The Road to the Kentucky Derby series opened in late September, but the prep season doesn't get into full swing until the New Year. And the first qualifier of 2023 took place at Oaklawn Park on New Year's Day, the Smarty Jones. Twenty-six additional point races will be offered for the May 6 Kentucky Derby (G1) over the next 3 1/2 months. Let's…

Edwin Maldonado / 6 John Velazquez / 6 TRAINERS / WINS Philip D'Amato / 14 Bob Baffert / 7 Doug O'Neill / 6 George Papaprodromou / 6 Peter Miller / 5 Saturday • $400000 Grade I Hollywood Derby, 3-year-olds, 1 1/8 miles (turf) • $100000 Grade III Jimmy Durante Stakes, 2-year-old fillies, 1 mile (turf) • $100000 Stormy Liberal Stakes, 3-year-olds and…

With the Kentucky Derby still 23 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of "All Other Colts and Geldings from the 2020 Foal Crop" closed as the odds-on 4-5 favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) and Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI) winner Forte was the 10-1 second choice. Other horses who attracted mild interest from bettors: maiden…

With the Kentucky Derby still 23 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of "All Other Colts and Geldings from the 2020 Foal Crop" closed as the odds-on 4-5 favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) and Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI) winner Forte was the 10-1 second choice. Other horses who attracted mild interest from bettors: maiden…

With the Kentucky Derby 2023 still 23 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of all other colts and geldings from the 2020 foal crop closed as the odds-on, 4-5 favorite, and Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Forte was the 10-1 second choice Sunday night in pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager. Others who attracted mild interest from bettors included…

The mutuel field of " All other three-year-old colts and geldings " closed as the 4-5 favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) conducted over Thanksgiving weekend. Likewise, the " All other sires " option proved the popular choice at 5-1 in the Kentucky Derby Sire Future Wager that ran concurrently from Thursday through Sunday…

Churchill Downs' Barn Notes: Curly Jack May Set Them Straight In G2 KY Jockey Club (Curly Jack / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Michael McLaughlin's $300000 Iroquois Stakes (Grade III) winner Curly Jack headlines a field of nine 2-year-old colts that were entered in Saturday's 96 running of the $400000 Kentucky…

KY Derby Advance Wager #2 To Be Offered This Week (Forte / Coady Photography) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Fans will have their second of six opportunities to bet on the 149 running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) Thursday-Sunday where Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable's Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI)…

Six months in advance of the 2023 Kentucky Derby, the pari-mutuel field of "all other colts and geldings" closed as the odds-on 4-5 favorite in Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, and impressive debut winner Extra Añejo was the 12-1 second choice. Extra Añejo, a fast 9 1/2-length winner of a maiden special weight at Keeneland on Oct. 13 for…

CaveRock, 3-for-3 and already a two-time Grade 1 winner, was one of the six top-20betting options in Las Vegas who were left off the list of individual choicesin the KDFW. That was because horses in Baffert's name remained ineligible tocompete in the May 6 Derby because of the late Medina Spirit's failed drug testin the 2021 race. "Aswas the case…

The fourth of five pools for the Kentucky Derby Future Wager ("KDFW") is set for its three-day stand Friday-Sunday with MyRacehorse and Spendthrift Farm's recent $400000 San Felipe (Grade 2) winner Forbidden Kingdom tabbed by veteran morning line oddsmaker Mike Battaglia as the 5-1 favorite in the field of 24 betting interests. Pool 4 of the KDFW…

Betting on the fourth and final Kentucky Derby Future Wager will open at noon Friday and close at 6 p.m. Sunday. The Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which features $2 win and exacta wagering, provides fans the chance to place bets on possible entrants in the Kentucky Derby at odds that could be far greater than those available on the day of the…