Race Previews Kentucky Derby Picks & Preview | Who Wins The 2024 Run For The Roses? May 4, 2024 The 2023 Kentucky Derby (Alex Evers/Eclipse Sportswire/CSM) Race Previews Kentucky Derby Picks & Preview | Who Wins The 2024 Run For The Roses? May 4, 2024 By: Curtis "Magic" Kalleward twitteremail Share: share on facebook share on twitter share on linkedin email this article Aaron previews & gives his 2024 Kentucky Derby picks from Churchill Downs. Find out WHO will win the 150th “Run for the Roses” NOW! Tell us YOUR Kentucky Derby picks in the Comments! SMASH the *Thumbs Up* ~ HIT *Subscribe* ~ RING the *Notification* bell Want FREE Kentucky Derby past performances? Keep reading! The press release: Repole Stable’s homebred Fierceness, dominating winner of the Florida Derby (GI) in his most recent start, has been installed as the 5-2 morning line favorite for the 150th running of the $5 million Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (GI). The Run for the Roses will highlight a 14-race program that begins at 10:30 a.m. (all times Eastern) and featured nine stakes races worth a combined $10.75 million. The Kentucky Derby, which will reward the winner with $3.1 million, is the 12th race of the day with a 6:57 p.m. post time. Kentucky Derby 2024 Betting Bible Get the 2024 Kentucky Derby Betting Bible, featuring our EXACT race-by-race wagering plans for Kentucky Derby Day on May 4 at Churchill Downs! Who will we pick to win the Kentucky Derby? Get your copy today! DOWNLOAD NOW! Trained by two-time Kentucky Derby winner Todd Pletcher, Fierceness earned the Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old in 2023 with a 6 ¼-length victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI) at Santa Anita. Third in his 2024 debut in the Holy Bull (GIII), Fierceness rebounded with a 13 ½-length victory in the Florida Derby. John Velazquez, who has been aboard Fierceness for his past three starts, has the mount Saturday from post 17. Like Pletcher, Velazquez is a multiple Derby winner. Velazquez won on Animal Kingdom in 2011 and Authentic in 2020 and teamed with Pletcher to win the 2017 running with Always Dreaming. Pletcher’s other victory came with Super Saver in 2010. Second choice on the morning line at 3-1 is Peter Brant, Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor,Derrick Smith, Westerberg and Brook Smith’s Sierra Leone, winner of the Blue Grass Stakes (GI) in his most recent start. Trained by Chad Brown, Sierra Leone is three for four in his career and perfect in 2024 with his debut resulting in a victory in the Risen Star (GII). Tyler Gaffalione, who has been aboard for both races this year, has the mount from post 2. Brown also will saddle Klaravich Stables’ Domestic Product (30-1). Irad Ortiz Jr. has the mount from post 15. Third choice on the morning line at 8-1 is Albaugh Family Stables’ Louisiana Derby (GII) winner Catching Freedom. Trained by Brad Cox, who saddled 2021 Derby winner Mandaloun, Catching Freedom will be ridden by Flavien Prat from post 4. Prat won the 2019 Derby on Country House. Cox will have two other entrants in Qatar Racing, Resolute Racing and Marc Detampel’s Just a Touch (10-1 co-fourth choice) and Godolphin’s Encino (20-1). Just a Touch, runner-up to Sierra Leone in the Blue Grass Stakes, will attempt to give Florent Gerouxa second Derby victory to go with Mandaloun. Just a Touch will exit post 8. Encino, winner of the Lexington (GIII) at Keeneland in his most recent start will be ridden by Axel Concepcion from post 9. Also at 10-1 on the morning line is Japanese invader Forever Young (JPN). Owned by Susumu Fujita and trained by Yoshito Yahagi, Forever Young is undefeated in five career starts and this year has won the Saudi Derby (GIII) and the UAE Derby (GII). Ryusei Sakai, who has been aboard Forever Young in all of his starts, will make his Kentucky Derby debut and start from post 11. In addition to Pletcher and Cox, two other trainers will be trying to boost their victory totals in the Derby. D. Wayne Lukas, who will send out BC Stables’ Just Steel (20-1), has four victories in the Run for the Roses. He first won with Winning Colors in 1988, with Thunder Gulch (1995), Grindstone (1996) and Charismatic (1999) following. Keith Asmussen will make his Derby debut riding Just Steel from post 6. Bill Mott, who has Country House’s 2019 Derby victory on his resume, will saddle Emily Bushnell and Ric Waldman’s Wood Memorial (GII) winner Resilience (20-1). Junior Alvarado has the mount from post 19. Newly-minted Hall of Famer Joel Rosario, who won the 2013 Derby on Orb, goes for his second Derby victory on L and N Racing, Clark Brewster, Jerry Caroom and Breeze Easy’s Track Phantom(20-1). Trained by Steve Asmussen, Track Phantom won the Lecomte (GIII) in January and then was second in the Risen Star to Sierra Leone and fourth in the Louisiana Derby to Catching Freedom. Track Phantom drew post 12. The field for making Kentucky Derby picks, with riders and morning line odds from the rail out: Get FREE Kentucky Derby PPs courtesy of Equibase! Join the Inner Circle Sign up for exclusive 10% discount on orders, plus be the first to access our daily free and premium horse racing picks, articles, podcasts, and more! Sign Up
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