Lookin At Lucky’s performance in the $500,000 Indiana Derby (G2) on
Saturday at Hoosier Park will determine whether the Smart Strike colt
will move forward to take on older horses for the first time in the
$5-million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) five weeks later at Churchill
Downs.
Last year’s champion two-year-old male, Lookin At Lucky is in the
driver’s seat to become the first colt since Spectacular Bid in
1979-’80 to repeat as champion three-year-old male. The Smart Strike
colt won the Preakness (G1) and Haskell Invitational (G1) Stakes this
year but has not raced since his four-length score in the Haskell on
August 1 at Monmouth Park.
“We want to see the same horse that we saw at the Haskell,” Racing
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert said. “We’ll know when we watch him
run. We have to get a good effort out of him. The main thing is to win
the race and to watch how he does it.”
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