War Pass and Pyro top second Kentucky Derby Future Pool

Horseracing Betting Lines

03/06/2008 - Louisville, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Eclipse Award winner War Pass is the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the second of three Kentucky Derby Future Wagers. Pyro, winner of the Risen Star Stakes, is the 6-1 second choice in the field of 24.

War Pass, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in 2007, is coming off a commanding victory in an allowance race at Gulfstream Park and is set to run in the Tampa Bay Derby on Saturday, March 15. The colt was 6-1 at the close of betting in the first Future Pool.

Pyro is the 7-5 favorite for this Saturday's running of the $600,000 Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds. He was second to War Pass in last Year's Juvenile at Monmouth Park and finished at 5-1 in the first Future Wager.

The mutuel field and Fountain of Youth victor Cool Coal Man are co-third choices at 10-1.

Wagering begins Thursday at 12 p.m. (et) and continues through Sunday at 6 p.m. (et).

Here is the complete field for the Future Wager:

Morning Line

1 Blackberry Road 30-1

2 Bob Black Jack 30-1

3 Colonel John 12-1

4 Cool Coal Man 10-1

5 Court Vision 12-1

6 Denis of Cork 15-1

7 El Gato Malo 15-1

8 Elysium Fields 15-1

9 Fierce Wind 20-1

10 Gayego 20-1

11 Georgie Boy 20-1

12 Giant Moon 20-1

13 J Be K 30-1

14 Majestic Warrior 20-1

15 Monba 30-1

16 Nikkisgoldensteed 50-1

17 Pyro 6-1

18 Smooth Air 50-1

19 Tale of Ekati 30-1

20 Visionaire 30-1

21 War Pass 5-1

22 Yankee Bravo 30-1

23 Z Fortune 20-1

24 Mutuel Field (All Others) 10-1

The third and the final pool is scheduled for April 3-6.

The 134th Kentucky Derby will be run on Saturday, May 3 at Churchill Downs.

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The 2008 Kentucky Derby has announced a $1-million bonus for this weekend’s 134th ‘Run for the Roses’ and MySportsbook.com is doing the same.

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According to MySportsbook.com, the favorites for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky are: Curlin (+250); Street Sense (+500); Scat Daddy (+700); Circular Quay (+750); and Nobiz Like Shobiz (+800).

Derby organizers announced this week that there will be a $1-million bonus at the 2007 Kentucky Derby odds if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths – the margin of Barbaro's victory last year. The bonus would be divided Saturday among the winning trainer, jockey, owner and a charity, with each receiving 25 percent. The designated charity is the Barbaro Memorial Fund.

''It's certainly creative, it's certainly fun and it has something for the horsemen, which we always want to embrace,'' Churchill Downs president and chief executive Robert Evans said at a news conference. ''What's really cool is it will force us to remember Barbaro.''
    
Meanwhile, the Derby favorite – Curlin – is going against the odds this year. It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since Regret in 1915 has such a lightly seasoned horse worn the blanket of red roses.

Arkansas Derby winner Curlin – unbeaten in three career races – tries to overcome both those obstacles in Saturday's 133rd Derby.

''We're not running against history,'' trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. ''We're running against who they load up.''

Six other horses have run in the Derby without benefit of 2-year-old races and with three or fewer starts. The best any of them managed was a sixth-place finish by Showing Up last year.
   
Asmussen dismissed suggestions that Curlin's lack of racing experience could keep him from the winner's circle.

”He exudes confidence and he's got a great presence about him,'' the trainer said. ''I feel great about the position we're in. He's not worried about anything, why should you be?''
   
The Kentucky Derby is at 4:04 p.m., ET Saturday.

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