LaPenta hoping Dialed In follows UK's path

3/29/2011 8:30 PM  | blogs.courier-journal.com
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Robert LaPenta, owner of Florida Derby contender Dialed In, says his Kentucky Derby hopeful has a lot in common with a certain Bluegrass basketball team.


Dialed In was an early season darling, capturing Gulfstream Park’s Holy Bull in his second career start. Then he narrowly lost an allowance race to older horses and some of the luster came off his reputation.


On a national conference call Tuesday, LaPenta compared the Derby prep season with the NCAA Tournament, “where everybody seems to be able to beat everybody.”


And so which team does LaPenta think Dialed In replicates?

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