The Road to the Kentucky Derby- April 22nd<\/strong><\/p>\n Leading up to horse racing\u2019s premier event; the Kentucky Derby this May, there are close to 60 prep races between the beginning of the year and last weekend that not only shaped this year\u2019s field, but provides a good idea as to which horses will go off as the favorite to win the Derby and possibly go on to earn the Triple Crown by winning the Preakness and the Belmont as well. Here is a brief re-cap of the final key stakes race from this season\u2019s road to the Derby.<\/p>\n The Coolmore Lexington Stakes- Saturday April 17<\/strong>th<\/strong><\/sup> from Keeneland<\/strong><\/p>\n The Coolmore Lexington Stakes is a grade II stakes race for three year olds with a total prize purse of $300,000. It is contested on a Polytrack synthetic surface over a distance of 1 1\/16 mile.<\/p>\n In what was the final opportunity for Derby hopefuls to acquire enough graded stakes earnings to qualify for the field in Kentucky, there was a field of 12 entered into Saturday\u2019s race all looking to pull out a win.<\/p>\n While\u00a0Uptowncharleybrown<\/strong> went off as the favorite, 19-1\u00a0Exhi<\/strong> went wire to wire to pull off yet another upset by a substantial long shot in a major stakes race. Trained by Todd Pletcher and ridden in this race by Robby Albarado, be broke out of the gate and went right to the front of the pack, never relinquishing the lead to win by a length over\u00a0Bushwhacked,<\/strong> who closed hard to take second. Uptowncharleybrown finished third, another \u00bd length back. While Exhi earned $180,000 for this victory, he still does not have enough combined earnings to move him into the top 20 so he is not guaranteed a spot in the Kentucky Derby at this time. Pletcher did not rule out running him in next Saturday\u2019s Derby Trial to try and earn a spot.<\/p>\n This was Exhi\u2019s first graded stakes race win as he finished sixth in his only other start which was as a two year old in the grade III Bourbon Stakes from Keeneland last October.\u00a0 He did win the non graded Rushaway Stakes and finished second to Derby contender, Odysseus in a Tampa Bay allowance race on February 17th<\/sup> in his three year old debut.<\/p>\n Exhi\u2019s victory in the Coolmore Lexington Stakes gave Pletcher his third straight win in this race and his fourth overall.\u00a0\u00a0Advice<\/strong> won last year,\u00a0Behindathebar <\/strong>won it in 2008, and\u00a0Coin Silver<\/strong> won it for him in 2005.<\/p>\n <\/strong> Before the Kentucky Derby this May, there are close to 60 prep races between the beginning of the year and the end of April. Our top online racebooks offer wagers on every track in North America, every day, on every race!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23428,23426,23432,23431,28093,27934,28092,572,24926,2433,17549,23429,2438,23427,23430,28091],"class_list":["post-21442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-racing","tag-2010-kentucky-derby","tag-2010-kentucky-derby-prep-races","tag-allhorseracing-com","tag-best-racebooks","tag-bushwhacked","tag-coolmore-lexington-stakes","tag-exhi","tag-horse-betting","tag-horse-betting-online","tag-horse-race-gambling","tag-horse-race-handicapping","tag-kentucky-derby-prep-race-preview","tag-online-racebook","tag-online-racebook-gambling","tag-prep-races","tag-uptowncharleybrown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21445,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions\/21445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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