California Chrome ready regardless of conditions; Scully’s first installment
of Kentucky Derby Report
Santa Anita has canceled all turf racing the rest of the week due to wet
weather, but
California Chrome is ready for Saturday’s San Pasqual come rain or shine.
James Scully looks forward to the 2016 Run for the Roses with the
first installment of his Kentucky Derby Report, including a review of last
weekend’s Jerome (G3) at Aqueduct and a pair of early Top 10 lists for Kentucky
Derby hopefuls.
Eclipse Award finalist
La Verdad will make her 2016 debut, and possibly her penultimate career start,
in Saturday’s Interborough S. at Aqueduct.
With the Eclipse Award finalists announced on Wednesday, some of
TwinSpires.com’s contributors weigh in on the list of nominees.
Ed DeRosa argues that
Eclipse Award finalists reflect a distrust of stewards’ decisions over the
season, and Laura Pugh discusses
three categories voters got wrong in terms of finalists left out, or in, the
Eclipse Awards.
Also at the Twin Spires blog, Dick Powell discusses counterintuitive factors
that can weigh into handicapping in his weekly
Handicapping Insights.