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2010 Derby Trial (G3)

Date/Track:
4/24/2010, Churchill Downs
Distance:
1 mile (Dirt)
Age/Sex:
3 M
Time:
1:36.35

What the Nation is saying about the 2010 Derby Trial (G3)...

Notching his fifth win on opening day at soggy Churchill Downs, Calvin Borel unleashed his patented rail-skimming ride and guided the colt to victory in the Derby Trial.Read More
Could Pleasant Prince pull the first Derby Trial - Kentucky Derby Double since Tim Tam in 1958? He just might...Read More
By this time next week, we'll know who's in the gate for the 136th Kentucky Derby presented by Taco Smell. Some big questions will be answered today as to whether certain horses in the bottom portion of the Top 20 in graded stakes will qualify to run for the roses...Read More
Selections will be able for free this week. If you have some success or enjoy them I encourage you to check back next week for our Kentucky Derby selections. We will have full card selections for Churchill Downs along with our top pick to win and exotic wagers for the Run for the Roses...Read More
It is called The Cliff’s Edge Derby Trial Stakes (G3). Yet, in keeping with its impact on the Triple Crown in recent years, it actually should be known as the Preakness Trial. With horsemen placing more faith in rest than ever, the prospect of running in the Derby Trial and then returning a week lat...Read More
Opening day at Churchill Downs could determine a Derby contender. The 42-day spring meet starts tomorrow. Spokesperson Darren Rogers says the tenth race is the Grade-three Cliff’s Edge Derby Trial. “The two marquis horses trying to get into this year’s Kentucky Derby are Eightyfiveinafifty, he’s the...Read More
It has become apparent in recent weeks as the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Triple Crown season unfolds that a remarkable number of leading 3-year-old prospects raced at Gulfstream Park this year, a fact re-affirmed Saturday with the fields assembled for Saturday’s $200,000 Derby Trial Stakes (G3) at Chu...Read More
As this reader mentioned, those looking for some closers in the Derby will sure be rooting for Eightyfiveinafifty to win Saturday's Derby Trial. Fans of horses like Sidney's Candy who, I do still believe will be on or near the lead, hope that he fades in the stretch like the NJ Devils....Read More
Jason and James Scully preview the Derby Trial. Plus, early longshot Derby plays.Read More
Churchill Downs' opening-day feature, the Derby Trial, received a $100,000 purse boost and Grade 3 status for Saturday's 86th running, and the one-mile event is relevant to the 2010 Kentucky Derby (G1) picture due to the $120,000 now available to the winner in graded earnings. Renamed The Cliff's Ed...Read More
The Lexington was not supposed to produce a Kentucky Derby starter nor did it look like it contained any serious 3YOs and that was confirmed with Exhi’s wire-to-wire win on the Polytrack at Keeneland.  There were no other prep races run last weekend and we’re down now to just days rather than w...Read More
The Lexington Stakes was the only Graded three-year-old race of the week and Exhi was never headed in a sharp performance. The Todd Pletcher trainee falls short on the Graded Earnings list and will not be running on the first Saturday in May. He earned a 94 BSF for his Keeneland triumph... Read More
Also working for the Kentucky Oaks on Saturday was Fair Grounds Oaks runner-up Champagne d’Oro, who breezed six furlongs in 1:14 under jockey Miguel Mena … New York shippers Awesome Act and Eightyfiveinafifty jogged over the Churchill Downs track on the morning after their Friday arrivals at the tra...Read More
  • invasor · So, we have to wait until the outcome of the Derby Trial this Saturday to see who's in and who's out. Looks like Pleasant Prince or Drosselmeyer would have to win to get in. · 1126 days ago ·
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Add Ol Memorial Stable and C.E. Glasscock’s Soaring Empire to the intriguing probable field now expected to line up for this year’s enriched $200,000 Derby Trial Stakes (G3) to be run next Saturday at Churchill Downs reported trainer Cam Gambolati Saturday morning at Palm Meadows. Soaring Empire is...Read More
The Sid and Jenny Craig Trust’s Sidney’s Candy, whose three-race winning streak in stakes races includes the Santa Anita Derby (GI), is scheduled to work for the first time over the Churchill Downs track on Saturday, April 17.  The John Sadler-trained homebred son of Candy Ride could be the fir...Read More
Bay Shore (GII) winner Eightyfiveinafifty arrived at Churchill Downs early Friday morning to prepare for next week’s $200,000-added The Cliff’s Edge Derby Trial (GIII) on Saturday, April 24 – the opening day of Churchill Down’s Spring Meet.  If the speedy colt wins the Trial, he could run back ...Read More
So much still has to happen for Eightyfiveinafifty to make it into the starting gate for the Kentucky Derby, but the speedy colt took one small step toward that goal on Wednesday with another typically fast workout at Aqueduct that kept him on target for the Grade 3 Derby Trial at Churchill Downs on...Read More
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  • humphrey · The only other horse that had a shot to run with Spend A Buck, Eternal Prince I believe, missed the break, At Hollywood the year before in the juvenile BC race, he ran his 6 furlong pace time FASTER than that year's sprint champion Ellio. · 1128 days ago ·
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  • gardenesque1 · Spend a Buck had the right combination of speed and stamina. Eightyfiveinafifty is a sprinter with no route foundation. · 1128 days ago ·
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Aikenite, who finished eighth of nine in the Blue Grass Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland, will be wheeled back in the Grade 3, $200,000 Derby Trial at Churchill Downs on April 24, but he is not going to be considered for the Kentucky Derby one week later, Cot Campbell, the president of the Dogwood St...Read More
The Derby Trial, which has been the opening-day feature of Churchill Downs' spring meet since 1982, received a huge boost when its purse was doubled to $200,000 with sponsorship by prominent owner-breeder Robert LaPenta, the track announced Friday.Read More

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