2010 Kentucky Derby Notes - April 19

CONVEYANCE/LOOKIN AT LUCKY – Three-time Kentucky Derby-winner Bob Baffert’s duo of Kentucky Derby 136 contenders - Karl Watson, Mike Pegram and Paul Weitman’s reigning 2-year-old champion Lookin At Lucky and Zabeel Racing International’s Southwest (GIII) winner Conveyance – galloped over a fast racing surface Sunday during the 15-minute training period devoted exclusively to horses bound for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks.

Both horses were ridden by exercise rider Dana Barnes.

Baffert said both Lookin At Lucky and Conveyance would work on Wednesday.

DEAN’S KITTEN / STATELY VICTOR – Trainer Mike Maker reported all was well Sunday morning with Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Dean’s Kitten after the homebred son of Kitten’s Joy worked five furlongs in :59.80 on Saturday at Trackside Training Center.

The Lane’s End (GII) winner is scheduled to work again next Saturday.

Maker’s other Kentucky Derby hopeful, Tom and Jack Conway’s Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (GI) winner Stately Victor galloped at Trackside with Marvin Jiminez up. Stately Victor is scheduled to work Saturday.

DUBLIN – Robert Baker and William Mack’s Dublin galloped after the renovation break Sunday morning under exercise rider Arielle Witkowski.

Winner of the Hopeful (G1) last summer at Saratoga and most recently third in the Arkansas Derby (GI), Dublin is scheduled to work five furlongs after the renovation break Monday morning with Terry Thompson aboard for four-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer D. Wayne Lukas.

EIGHTYFIVEINAFIFTY – Moirano Lerner and Team Stallion Racing’s Eightyfiveinafifty galloped under Nick Santagata after the renovation break as he prepared for an outing Saturday in Churchill Downs’ $200,000-added The Cliff’s Edge Derby Trial (GIII).

Marcelo Arenas, assistant to trainer Gary Contessa, said Eightyfiveinafifty would work an easy half-mile Tuesday morning under Santagata.

Eightyfiveinafifty, winner of the Bay Shore (GIII) in his most start, has $120,000 in graded stakes earnings and a victory in The Cliff’s Edge Derby Trial could vault him into a spot in the Kentucky Derby starting gate that is reserved for the top 20 graded stakes earners who pass the entry box.

ENDORSEMENT – WinStar Farm’s Endorsement, winner of the Sunland Park Derby (GIII) in his most recent start on March 28, arrived at Churchill Downs just before 1 p.m. Sunday from Keeneland.

“It was a good trip, no problems,” said trainer Shannon Ritter as Endorsement surveyed his new surroundings in Barn 19. Endorsement worked Saturday at Keeneland under Ritter in 1:01.60 for five furlongs in company. Ritter plans to work Endorsement here this coming Saturday.

Ritter said that Endorsement would return to the track to jog Monday morning.

Robby Albarado, who rode Endorsement for the first time in his Sunland Park victory, has the mount in the Kentucky Derby.

ICE BOX/JACKSON BEND – Robert LaPenta’s Florida Derby (GI) winner Ice Box jogged after the morning renovation break under exercise rider Dennis Chavez for trainer Nick Zito.

The son of Pulpit had worked a half-mile in :48.40 on Friday, sixth-best of 44 at the distance, and Zito said Ice Box may work again this coming Friday.

Jose Lezcano is scheduled to ride Ice Box in the Kentucky Derby.

Jacks or Better Farm and LaPenta’s Jackson Bend, who would need a defection from the list of Kentucky Derby hopefuls with more graded stakes earnings than his $230,000 to earn a spot in the starting gate, galloped under Carlos Correa. Mike Smith would have the Derby mount if Jackson Bend gets in the race.

LINE OF DAVID/SIDNEY’S CANDY – Half of the John Sadler-trained Kentucky Derby contingent was on the track Sunday morning as Ike and Dawn Thrash’s Line of David galloped a mile and a half shortly after the track opened under exercise rider Lupillo Alferez.

“This is the first day he acted like his old self,” said Sadler’s assistant Larry Benavidez as Line of David bounced off the track back to Barn 42 on a brisk morning before dawn. “That was a tough race in Arkansas.”

The “tough race” was the front-running neck victory in the Arkansas Derby (GI) that thrust the son of Lion Heart into the Kentucky Derby picture.

Benavidez said that Line of David is scheduled to work Tuesday morning. Sadler is scheduled to arrive in Louisville from his Southern California base on Monday.

Sidney’s Candy, winner of three consecutive graded stakes at Santa Anita highlighted by a 4 ½-length romp in the Santa Anita Derby (GI), walked the shedrow a day after working five furlongs in :59.80.

"He came out of the work fine and he will work again next Saturday,” Benavidez said of Sidney’s Candy, who is owned by the Sid and Jenny Craig Trust. Alferez worked Sidney’s Candy on Saturday. Jockey Joe Talamo is expected to be here next Saturday for the colt’s next work.

NOBLE’S PROMISE – Chasing Dreams Racing 2008’s Noble’s Promise galloped after the renovation break with exercise rider Walter Blum Jr. up.

Winner of the Breeders’ Futurity (GI) last fall at Keeneland, Noble’s Promise is scheduled to work Tuesday morning according to trainer Ken McPeek.

PADDY O’PRADO – Donegal Racing’s Paddy O’Prado, runner-up in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (GI) last weekend, galloped Sunday morning after the renovation break under Faustino Aguilar.

“He will gallop every day this week and work five-eighths on Saturday,” trainer Dale Romans said.

SUPER SAVER – WinStar Farm’s Super Saver galloped early Sunday morning under exercise Kevin Willey.

Runaway winner of the Kentucky Jockey Club (GII) here last fall, Super Saver is one of five Kentucky Derby probables trained by Todd Pletcher.

Scheduled to arrive from Palm Meadows in Florida on Tuesday along with Pletcher are Zayat Stables’ Eskendereya, Twin Creeks Racing Stables’ Mission Impazible, WinStar Farm’s Rule and E. Paul Robsham Stables’ Discreetly Mine. All members of the quartet worked five furlongs Saturday morning at Palm Meadows: Eskendereya (1:02.25), Mission Impazible (1:02.35), Rule (1:02.69) and Discreetly Mine (1:02.22).

 Wertheimer and Frere’s Interactif, fourth in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (Grade I) in his most recent start, “is still on the fence” with regard to the Kentucky Derby according to Mike McCarthy, Pletcher’s assistant in charge of his Churchill Downs string.