Saturday’s Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct offers 50 Kentucky Derby points to the winner and features Maryland-based Balboa. Picks and analysis here.
Three-year-old Balboa, based at Laurel Park with trainer Brittany Russell, will seek Kentucky Derby points in next Saturday’s Gotham.
Saturday’s Miracle Wood Stakes for three-year-olds has drawn a field of seven. Here’s the group.
The build-up to the 152nd Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) continues Friday through Sunday with Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, featuring Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI) winner Ted Noffey as the 6-1 individual favorite and All Other 3-Year-Olds not listed among the 39 individual interests as the overall 4-1 choice. The three-day pools, featuring $2 […]
The Brittany Russell-trained James F. Lewis, III Stakes winner Balboa, recently third in the G2 Remsen, will try his luck in the Jerome at the Big A Jan. 3.
Balboa, a dominant winner of the James. F. Lewis, III Stakes at Laurel Park last week in his first in Brittany Russell’s barn, could try the G2 Remsen next.
With two stakes wins this past weekend, Maryland rider Sheldon Russell has earned the Jockeys’ Guild’s Jockey of the Week honors.
Trainers Gary Capuano and Brittany Russell went one-two twice at Laurel Park as juveniles Doc’s Miracle and Balboa won their first stakes.