![]() Shadow Dragon is an exceptional pick for the price and a very live sleeper. Hit Show and Arctic Arrogance should be on every ticket. Legendary trainer Bob Baffert won the Kentucky Derby for a record seventh time Saturday after his horse, Medina Spirit, upset the top favorites in the field to win the 147th. Sip Mahoney is going to be worth watching and obviously there will be some eyes on Hit Show to see if it’s worthy of a being a Derby top 8 favorite. But the Wood hasn’t had great success recently sending horses to Louisville to win the Kentucky Derby. This race could go a number of directions. The 750,000 Wood Memorial winner at Aqueduct in New York. The last horse to win the Wood Memorial and the Kentucky Derby is Fusaichi Pegasus, who accomplished the feat in 2000. The race will take place on a 1 1/8 mile oval and since 2017 it has been a Grade 2 prep race for the Kentucky Derby this year. Classic Catch and Shadow Dragon are the closers in this race, but the pace might not be as fast as originally thought. The 2023 Wood Memorial Stakes will be held Saturday, April 8 at Aqueduct in Queens, New York. Hit Show, the morning-line favorite, is not in an ideal post position out wide at 13 so it’s going to try to move inside the pack and find a comfortable spot to draft. Last year’s winner Mo Donegal won the 2022 Belmont Stakes and Early Voting, who was the runner-up in last year’s race, won the 2022 Preakness Stakes.Īrctic Arrogance is going to come out of the gate strong and Dreamlike will try to keep that early pace. Bourbonic registered only a 94 Brisnet Speed rating, which will be one of the lowest last-out numbers in the Kentucky Derby field. The last horse to win the Wood Memorial and the Kentucky Derby is Fusaichi Pegasus, who accomplished the feat in 2000. It’s been 18 years since the Wood Memorial produced a Kentucky Derby winner (Funny Cide), and it did not look like a strong edition in 2021. Trainer: Bill Mott Jockey: Junior Alvarado. Lemaire rode last year’s UAE Derby winner, Crown Pride to a 13th place finish in the Derby. The 2023 Wood Memorial Stakes will be held Saturday, April 8 at Aqueduct in Queens, New York. Its difficult to know how a win in the UAE Derby on March 25 in Dubai will translate here, winning by 5 1/2 length win at 1-1/16 mile, with horses from Japan taking the top four spots. ![]()
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