All eyes are on five-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert and his likely two-year-old champion Game Winner, plus Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) hero Improbable, and a barn full of lightly raced promising colts. Triple Crown Bob is not the only conditioner with multiple Kentucky Derby 2019 talent. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott has three colts with unlimited Derby potential beginning with Country House.
Country House (Lookin At Lucky - Quake Lake, by War Chant) showed marked improvement in a runner-up finish in his second career start at Aqueduct on Dec. 1. He made his first sophomore start at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 17 and he broke slow and rallied from last place to win going away in a visually impressive effort at a mile and a sixteenth. He seems to have plenty of stamina and is definitely worth following.
Mucho (Blame - Extent, by Pulpit) was part of my original "exceptional eleven" Derby contenders list when I started my blog last September. He followed up a clear place finish in his Saratoga debut with a romping dirt sprint victory at that same venue second time out. He ended his juvenile campaign with a clear place finish behind Mind Control in the Hopeful (G1). He is spending the winter in Florida and returned to the work tab on Jan. 6.
Tacitcus (Tapit - Close Hatches, by First Defence) raced twice in 2018 including a one mile maiden win at Aqueduct in November. He owns a very classy pedigree and I put him on my Derby list shortly after his aforementioned maiden win He also got back to work at Payson Park Training Center in Florida on Jan. 6.
You can read all of my Derby blogs on my Kentucky Derby 2019 page, and my annual Triple Crown full card analysis from Churchill Downs, Pimlico Race Course, and Belmont Park will be available on my Runaway Horse Sales page later this spring.
Article by Jarrod Horak
Mucho photo courtesy of Josh Chicorelli
Mucho (Blame - Extent, by Pulpit) was part of my original "exceptional eleven" Derby contenders list when I started my blog last September. He followed up a clear place finish in his Saratoga debut with a romping dirt sprint victory at that same venue second time out. He ended his juvenile campaign with a clear place finish behind Mind Control in the Hopeful (G1). He is spending the winter in Florida and returned to the work tab on Jan. 6.
Tacitcus (Tapit - Close Hatches, by First Defence) raced twice in 2018 including a one mile maiden win at Aqueduct in November. He owns a very classy pedigree and I put him on my Derby list shortly after his aforementioned maiden win He also got back to work at Payson Park Training Center in Florida on Jan. 6.
You can read all of my Derby blogs on my Kentucky Derby 2019 page, and my annual Triple Crown full card analysis from Churchill Downs, Pimlico Race Course, and Belmont Park will be available on my Runaway Horse Sales page later this spring.
Article by Jarrod Horak
Mucho photo courtesy of Josh Chicorelli
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