Essential Quality wins Blue Grass Stakes, looks to be Kentucky Derby favorite

Essential Quality won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. Bourbonic won at Aqueduct by a head. The Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn is next Saturday. Concert Tour is scheduled to run in the race. Kendrick Carmouche will be the third Black jockey to ride in a Derby in 100 years. Santa Anita Oaks was won by Soothsay. Brilliant Cut, owned by Mick Cronin, scratched. The last horse to do that double was Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000. It was a field of five with Brilliant cut, partly owned and trained by UCLA coach Mick. Cronins.