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KENTUCKY DERBY, OAKS CONTENDERS                                           A lot has been made out of the fact that Confidence Game
    FINALIZE PREPARATION FOR                                          has not run since the Rebel Stakes (GII) Feb. 25 at Oaklawn
                                                                      this week, but the only ones not concerned are his trainer and
         WEEKEND RACES                                                owner.
                                                                               “The answer is simple, it took the ownership a month
LOUISVILLE, KY (Thursday, May 4, 2023) – Less than 48                 to sober up,” Desormeaux said. “That’s the funny answer.
hours remain until the first Saturday and trainers are eagerly        How do you want me to make a decision when the ownership
watching as their Kentucky Derby contenders log their final           was still partying a month later? It was awesome. The Rebel
training sessions before the Run for the Roses.                       was fun for those guys. The serious answer is it was 40 degrees
    It was an eventful morning for trainer Brad Cox with three        all weekend in Hot Springs that week, he ran in that kind of
of his four Derby contenders scheduled to gallop at 7:30 a.m.         weather and then we shipped back to New Orleans on Sunday
Two of three contenders were completing their final circuit           and it’s 80 degrees. In New Orleans it was 80 degrees all week.
around the racetrack when the third runner, Verifying, passed         So, he went from 40 to 80. And, it zapped him. I knew I was
the five-furlong marker and got loose from his rider. He was          going to give him a couple of light weeks. And, right when I
apprehended at the quarter pole by Outriders Greg Blasi and           got him up to race readiness again, which was around
Lee Lockwood.                                                         Louisiana Derby time, around Arkansas Derby time, Blue
    Cox reported Verifying was fine following the training            Grass time, it was time to ship here. And, horses need to
mishap.                                                               acclimate. He was going from New Orleans to Louisville,
    Moments later, Peter Miller’s filly And Tell Me Nolies            changing homes, changing routine. I just didn’t think adding a
reared as she was walking off the track and ran off the gap           race on top of that was beneficial to what I wanted to do
back to her Barn 24.                                                  Saturday, so we chose not to run and I feel very comfortable
    Miller stated And Tell Me Nolies was OK.                          with that decision. The horse is just thriving right now.”
    There will be special training hours on Friday and Saturday           “Ten weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about this, but Keith
with training from 5:30-7:30 a.m. with Friday’s 7:45-8 slot           and I talked about it and we felt it was in the best interest of
reserved for Oaks and Derby horses and the same time                  the horse,” Don’t Tell My Wife Stables Managing Partner Kirk
Saturday for Derby horses.                                            Godby said. “We wanted to have him fresh and ready to run
                                                                      in the Triple Crown. We felt this gives him the best chance to
ANGEL OF EMPIRE/HIT SHOW/JACE’S ROAD,                                 compete in this race and then go on from there. We’re
VERIFYING – Gary and Mary West’s Hit Show went out                    excited.”
to train at 5:15 a.m., while his other three Derby running
stablemates, Albaugh Family Stables’ Angel of Empire,                 CONTINUAR – Lion Race Horse Co. Ltd.’s Continuar
West Point Thoroughbreds and Albaugh Family Stables’                  (JPN) walked from the Quarantine Barn to the front of the
Jace’s Road, and Coolmore’s Verifying went to out to train            grandstand and then went to the mile chute where he warmed
at 7:30 a.m. during the special training time Thursday.               up during the first harrow break of the morning.
    Three of the four had routine 1 ½-mile gallops, but                  When the track reopened for training at 7:30, Continuar
Verifying had a little more eventful training session. He             cantered a mile with trainer Yoshito Yahagi looking on.
dumped his exercise rider and had to be caught by outrider               Ryusei Sakai will be aboard Continuar for his first Derby
Greg Blasi and Lee Lockwood. About an hour later, Cox                 mount and will break from post 20.
reported Verifying was “fine.”
    In addition to the four horses in the Kentucky Derby, Cox         DERMA SOTOGAKE – Hiroyuki Asanuma’s Derma
also has three fillies in the Kentucky Oaks as he seeks his third     Sotogake (JPN) walked from the Quarantine Barn to the
win in that race. When asked how he was holding up from the           front of the grandstand and then went to the mile chute where
pressures of the week, the Louisville native said, “I’m great. It’s   he warmed up during the first harrow break of the morning.
cool, it’s great. Since we got all of our works in and our gate          When the track reopened at 7:30, the UAE Derby (GII)
schooling in, I’m just ready for race day to get here.”               winner galloped a mile and a quarter as trainer Hidetaka
    All four of the Cox Derby runners will school in the              Otonashi and jockey Christophe Lemaire looked on.
paddock during the first race Thursday.                                  Derma Sotogake will represent the second Derby mount
                                                                      for Lemaire, who was aboard Crown Pride (JPN) last year
CONFIDENCE GAME – Don’t Tell My Wife Stables’                         when that runner finished 13th.
Confidence Game walked the shedrow of barn 24 as is the
normal routine for the Keith Desormeaux stable. He will
return to the track Friday to gallop and is likely to also gallop
Saturday morning, race day.
                                                                                                  -more-
Kentucky Derby News Update                                         out for a good gallop at the start of the special 7:30 to 7:45
Thursday, May 4, 2023                                              training session Thursday morning at Churchill Downs. The
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                                                                   Baltazar Contreras for a mile and three-eighths and schooled
   Lemaire rode the son of Mind Your Biscuits for the first        in the starting gate as well.
time in the UAE Derby, a front-running 5 ½-length victory, a           At 7:55 Contreras got a leg up on Reincarnate, the Sham
performance that propelled Derma Sotogake to the co-fourth         Stakes (GIII) winner, and he, too, headed to the racetrack for a
choice on the Derby 149 morning line at 10-1.                      good gallop, covering a mile and a quarter when all was said
                                                                   and done.
DISARM – Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Disarm galloped                       The trainer was asked if all was good with his charges
Thursday at 7:30 a.m. for Hall of Fame trainer Steve               heading toward Derby 149.
Asmussen.                                                              “Yes, I’m happy with where my horses are,” he said.
                                                                   “Everything is going well.”
FORTE/KINGSBARNS/MAJOR                        DUDE/TAPIT               Practical Move will break out of Post 10 Saturday with
TRICE – As per usual, Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher           regular rider Ramon Vazquez aboard. Reincarnate will come
had his Derby trio trackside and ready to roll for the special     out of Post seven and have Hall of Fame jockey John
7:30 to 7:45 training period for Derby and Oaks runners. They      Velazquez in the saddle.
all went about their business by galloping about a mile and
three eighths around the big Churchill oval.                       RAISE CAIN – Andrew and Rania Warren’s Raise Cain
    The threesome consisted of Derby favorite Forte (with          galloped 1 ½ miles under Rene Morales for trainer Ben
exercise rider Hector Ramos up), the undefeated Kingsbarns         Colebrook.
(Elder Flores) and the Blue Grass Stakes (GI) star Tapit               “This morning was as good as he ever trained,” Colebrook
Trice (Amelia Green).                                              said. “His ears were pricked.”
    Green, a young English horsewoman who has worked for               Raise Cain will represent the first Derby starter for the 45-
Pletcher for the past six years, was asked about the possibility   year-old Colebrook, who went out on his own in 2012.
of her charge – the gray Tapit Trice – winning Saturday’s              “The first Derby I saw in person was Thunder Gulch in
Derby and what that would mean to her.                             1995,” Colebrook said. “The first Derby I really remember was
    “Well, I’m lucky to be working in a good barn with good        Alysheba (in 1987). He was my favorite horse.”
horses,” she said. “All our horses are working well, including
mine. But I don’t think you’re going to find anyone here this      ROCKET CAN – The Into Mischief colt, owned by Frank
week with a Derby horse that wouldn’t tell you their horse is      Fletcher Racing Operations, was on the track Thursday
training well.                                                     morning for a gallop of about a mile-and-three-eighths with
    “If one of the horses from our barn were to win, I’d be        regular exercise rider Guelser Cardona.
delighted. We’re a team here and we root for each other and             “We got held up a bit, but it turned out OK,” said Hall of
want the others to do well. But probably – deep in my heart –      Fame trainer Bill Mott, referring to Verifying dumping his
there’s a place that would feel very warm if my horse was to       exercise rider and taking off.
win the Derby. That would be special.”                                  Rocket Can, who drew the No. 18 post position and was
    Pletcher said “All is good so far,” when asked about his       listed at morning-line odds of 30-1, will have Junior Alvarado
Derby hopefuls. He’s scheduled them for a visit to the             aboard in the Derby. He’ll wear blinkers, and has trained with
paddock with the horses for today’s Race six and indicated his     them on.
runners would be ready to train again Friday in the special 7:45
to 8 a.m. training session for Derby and Oaks runners.             SKINNER – Following a pattern he set on his first Churchill
                                                                   training morning this past Monday, trainer John Shirreffs sent
LORD MILES – Vegso Racing Stable’s Wood Memorial                   his colt Skinner to the racetrack at 9 a.m. for his morning
(GII) winner walked the shedrow Thursday morning.                  exercise.
                                                                       The Curlin colt, a $510,000 2-year-old-in-training purchase
MAGE – The Good Magic colt, runner-up to Forte in the              by owners C R K Stable, had exercise rider Donnie
Florida Derby (GI), galloped Thursday with regular exercise        Balthazar up and a stable pony alongside as they came
rider J.J. Delgado.                                                through the six-furlong gap and backtracked to the finish line
    “Today he was schooling at the gate, and he looked really,     and up into the paddock. The rider then took the bay onto the
really good on the track,” said trainer Gustavo Delgado.           racetrack from there for a strong mile and one-half gallop,
“There wasn’t any problem when the horse (Verifying) got           moving smartly in the middle of the racetrack. Skinner was on
loose. Today he’s probably going to the paddock, too.”             the bit and wanting to run.
    “The talent he’s showing is very great,” Delgado added             “Oh, yeah, happy with that strong move,” said Shirreffs,
after lightly raced Mage galloped a strong mile-and-a-half.        who watched he drill from a viewing stand on the backside.
    Javier Castellano will ride the colt, owned by OGMA                Skinner was escorted by veteran pony lady Monnie Goetz.
Investments LLC, Ramiro Restrepo, Sterling Racing LLC              She has taken Shirreffs previous Kentucky Derby winner,
and CMNWLTH, out of post eight. He’s listed at 15-1 on the         Giacomo, to the post for the 2005 Kentucky Derby. She was
morning line.                                                      asked if she had happy memories of that.

PRACTICAL MOVE/REINCARNATE – Trainer Tim
Yakteen sent his Santa Anita Derby winner Practical Move                                       -more-
Kentucky Derby News Update
Thursday, May 4, 2023                                              ALSO-ELIGIBLES – Trainer Dale Romans is making sure
Page 3 of 5                                                        Cyclone Mischief is fresh, fit and ready to step into the 20th
                                                                   starting gate on Saturday, if a horse is scratched from the
    “Oh, yes,” she said. “That’s always fun when you’re            Derby field.
working with a winner. I’ve had a couple of others that I took         “He went out to school in the gate, and will stand in the
to the post, too – Orb in 2013 and California Chrome in            paddock today,” Romans said Friday following a gallop of
2014.”                                                             about a mile-and-three-eighths with exercise rider Faustino
    Who, it was wondered, would she be taking postward for         Herrarte. “He galloped super today.”
Derby 149?                                                             Hiroaki Arai’s Mandarin Hero galloped two miles under
    “Don’t know yet,” she noted. “I’ve been working with           Yuji Horita.
about 13 of them leading up to the race. I’ll wind up with one         Brereton C. Jones and Naber Racing’s King Russell
of them.”                                                          galloped 1 ½ miles Thursday at 7:30 a.m.
    Made aware of the special training hours in place for Friday
because of the Kentucky Oaks card, Shirreffs indicated that he     LONGINES KENTUCKY OAKS UPDATE
would send his charge out during the special 7:45 to 8 a.m.
training period set aside for Derby and Oaks runners. The          AFFIRMATIVE LADY – AMO Racing USA’s Affirmative
track closes for training after that.                              Lady had an eventful mile and a half gallop under Kevin
                                                                   Lundie.
SUN THUNDER – Trainer Kenny McPeek had his colt                        “She had an interrupted mile and a half,” trainer Graham
back on the track Thursday with regular exercise rider Martin      Motion said. “She had to pull up because of the loose horse.
Vargas, galloping slightly more than a mile.                       It’s ironic, really, with the special training time and there is
    On Oaks Day, McPeek plans to send Sun Thunder out in           supposed to be no drama.”
the first set when the track opens at 5:15 a.m.                        Winner of the Gulfstream Park Oaks (GII) in her most
    Riding Sun Thunder in his breeze was his Derby jockey,         recent start, Affirmative Lady will exit post 13 under John
Brian Hernandez Jr. The colt, owned by R.T Racing Stable           Velazquez in Friday afternoon’s Oaks.
and Cypress Creek Equine, has been training with blinkers              “I’d like to see Johnny save some ground going into the
on, and will wear them in the Derby. Sun Thunder and               first turn,” Motion said. “He has done it so many times, I will
Hernandez will leave the Derby starting gate from post             leave it up to him.”
position 13. He’s listed at 50-1 on the morning line.                  Motion said Affirmative Lady would not go to the track in
    McPeek has made headlines throughout the week sporting         the morning.
University of Kentucky and University of Louisville gear.
However, Wednesday night McPeek and his family attended            AND TELL ME NOLIES – Peter Redekop’s And Tell
the Davenport Derby Dash, a benefit for the Scott Davenport        Me Nolies went out to train at 7:30 a.m. with the other
Foundation at Bellarmine University.                               Kentucky Oaks and Derby contenders and was appearing to
    When asked at the event his instructions to Hernandez in       have a routine morning of galloping and standing in the
the Derby, McPeek stated, “I’m just watching along. I’ll let       starting gate until the very end of the session. As she was
Brian decide what to do.”                                          walking back to the barn, she reared and dumped her exercise
                                                                   rider before galloping at full speed off the track and back to
TWO PHIL’S – Patricia’s Hope, Phillip Sagan, and                   the barn.
Madaket Stable’s Two Phil’s visited the track earlier than             Trainer Peter Miller, who had been watching training with
usual on Thursday, galloping his standard 1 and 1/4 miles at 6     his two sons Jacob and Seth, reported the filly appears to be
a.m. under exercise rider Gonzalo Gonzales. The son of Hard        fine and they are moving forward to the Oaks.
Spun by the General Quarters mare Mia Torri was bred by the            “She just got real happy and reared up,” Miller said.
father and son team of Chicago natives Philip and Anthony          “Luckily, she didn’t go down or anything, so she’s OK. She
Sagan, who have retained 10 percent ownership.                     seems OK.”
    One of the two eponymous Phils, Phil Sagan arrived in
Louisville on Wednesday and joined son Anthony on the
backside Thursday morning.
    “Two Phil’s is the first horse we ever bred, and nobody
wanted him,” Anthony Sagan said. “His mother is a Florida-
bred and we actually bought her off Michael “Bo” Yates
(trainer of Oaks filly Dorth Vader). She was the first horse we
ever bought. The mom is the same type of horse—relaxed,
easy going, nothing bothered her, she didn't lose her mind in
the paddock—so he got that from her. How many guys get
involved in the game with one horse and then after she’s done
racing, breed that horse, and the first horse she has is now in
the Derby.”
     Two Phil’s has two brothers, a two-year-old by Omaha
Beach and a baby by McKenzie. The chestnut colt will school
in the paddock ahead of Race three on Thursday.                                                -more-
Kentucky Derby News Update                                              Gambling Girl will have Irad Ortiz Jr. in the tack and
Thursday, May 4, 2023                                                break from Post three. Julia Shining may wind up in the Black-
Page 4 of 5                                                          Eyed Susan on Preakness weekend in Baltimore

BOTANICAL, THE ALYS LOOK, WET PAINT –                                MIMI KAKUSHI – Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al
Trainer Brad Cox sent Botanical and The Alys Look to the             Maktoum’s Mimi Kakushi jogged a mile alongside a pony
track together first set at 5:15 a.m. along with Derby runner        and then galloped a mile under Xavier Ziani.
Hit Show for their Thursday training and they both galloped a            Trainer Salem bin Ghadayer said Mimi Kakushi could go
1 ½ miles. Kentucky Oaks morning line favorite Wet Paint             to the track in the morning or be hand-walked in the
went out to train at 7:30 with three of her stablemates running      Quarantine Barn.
in the Kentucky Derby, Angel of Empire, Jace’s Road and                  Mimi Kakushi will represent bin Ghadayer’s first starter in
Verifying, and she also galloped 1 ½ miles.                          the United States and the trainer is optimistic about his filly.
    “They’re really good,” Cox said. “They just had regular              “She has improved every race and I think she has a good
gallops. They all schooled yesterday and were great. They’ll just    chance,” bin Ghadayer said of the UAE Oaks (GIII) winner.
walk tomorrow.”                                                      “It is a very open race, but we came here to win and not to
                                                                     turn around and go back home.”
DEFINING PURPOSE – The Ashland Stakes (GI) winner
took to the track Thursday morning during the period reserved        PRETTY MISCHIEVOUS – With trainer Brendan Walsh
for Oaks and Derby horses, with regular exercise rider Shelby        on pony overseeing the preparations, Pretty Mischievous
Spalding aboard, for the usual gallop of about a mile-and-           galloped her regular distance of one mile and a half during the
three-eighths.                                                       7:30 - 7:45 a.m. Derby/Oaks training window.
    “My filly was off the track before it happened, so she got in        “She’s had a great week, really she’s doing super,” Walsh
her full gallop,” trainer Kenny McPeek said of the incident          said. “She’s got a lot of class. It’s been a good couple of days
with Verifying dumping his exercise rider and running off.           so far, which feels good heading into a big weekend.”
She’ll walk the shedrow early Friday, before the Oaks later in           Walsh has saddled three winners from four entries in the
the day.                                                             first three days of Churchill’s Spring Meet, including winning
    The filly, who races in the silks of Magdalena Racing,           two maiden races on Wednesday’s card with Gloria’s Princess
Collette Marie Vanmatre and James Ball, drew the No. 11              and Eddie M.
post position in the field of 14. Brian Hernandez Jr. will ride
12-1 Defining Purpose Friday.                                        PROMISEHER AMERICA – Forgoing the Derby and
                                                                     Oaks training window, Hoffman Thoroughbreds, Tom
DORTH VADER – John Ropes’ Dorth Vader had a                          McCrocklin, and Medallion Racing’s Promiseher
routine 1 ½-mile gallop at 7:30 a.m. Thursday.                       America jogged one mile at around 6:00 a.m. Thursday.
                                                                         “She did perfect. She’s a quiet filly. She’s not nervous at all
FLYING CONNECTION – Brad King, Randy Andrews,                        and seems like her normal self in the new environment. (Her
G. Chris Coleman, Jim Cone, Suzanne Kirby and Lee                    exercise rider Fernando Tapara) was really happy with the
Lewis’ Flying Connection galloped a mile and a half under            gallop yesterday,” assistant trainer Rodrigo Montecino
Oscar Rojero.                                                        reported.
    “She had to pull up (because of the loose horse), but a
couple minutes later I saw her around the seven-eighths pole         SOUTHLAWN – Robert Masterson’s Southlawn had a 1
and see was going strong,” trainer Todd Fincher said.                ½-mile gallop Thursday morning for trainer Norm Casse.
    Fincher said the wire-to-wire winner of the Sunland Park           Jockey Rey Gutierrez was on hand watching his Oaks
Oaks (Listed) in her most recent start would not go to the           mount train while getting interviewed in the Kentucky Derby
track Friday morning.                                                Morning Works Show.
    Florent Geroux, who worked Flying Connection twice
here, has the mount and will leave from post 10.                     WONDER WHEEL – A day after making an appearance
    “I’d like to see her break a length and front and have a         during the Oaks and Derby training window, the Mark Casse-
clean trip,” said Fincher, who is saddling his first Oaks starter.   trainee Wonder Wheel returned to her routine exercise time
“Then we will see how she stacks up.”                                of 6 a.m. on Thursday morning. Assistant trainer David
                                                                     Carroll led D.J. Stable’s filly through an easy gallop.
GAMBLING GIRL/JULIA SHINING – Trainer Todd                               “If the real Wonder Wheel shows up, she’ll be tough,”
Pletcher had his two Kentucky Oaks possibles trackside for           Mark Casse said. “She is 2 for 2 here at Churchill. My wife
the special training session between 7:30 and 7:45 Thursday          brought two dresses, her fancy dress for Derby day and her
morning. Exercise rider Carlos Quevedo was at the controls           other dress which is nice but is for the Oaks, and I told her she
for Gambling Girl, while Humberto Zamora was in the                  might want to reverse that. I can’t say anything better than that
saddle with Julia Shining.                                           about how she is doing.”
    Gambling Girl is guaranteed a spot for the 149th edition of
the “Run for the Lillies,” while Julia Shining will need a couple
of scratches in the race prior to 9 a.m. Friday. Both took their
Thursday exercise over a mile and three eighths on a sunny
Louisville morning.
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