JC / Railbird

Speed to the Outside

Is there any doubt? Recapturetheglory, Gayego, and Big Brown will be among the final five assigned a spot in the gate. Here’s the order in which connections will select post positions in the Kentucky Derby draw, which will be shown on ESPN2 beginning at 5:00 p.m. ET today:

# Horse Trainer Jockey
1 Visionaire Matz Lezcano
2 Big Truck Tagg Castellano
3 Colonel John Harty Nakatani
4 Z Fortune Asmussen Albarado
5 Pyro Asmussen Bridgmohan
6 Eight Belles Jones Saez
7 Anak Nakal Zito Bejarano
8 Court Vision Mott Gomez
9 Z Humor Mott Douglas
10 Monba Pletcher Dominguez
11 Smooth Air Stutts Cruz
12 Adriano Motion Prado
13 Bob Black Jack Kasparoff Migliore
14 Denis of Cork Carroll Borel
15 Cowboy Cal Pletcher Velazquez
16 Big Brown Dutrow Desormeaux
17 Tale of Ekati Tagg Coa
18 Cool Coal Man Zito Leparoux
19 Recapturetheglory Roussel Baird
20 Gayego Lobo Smith

Trainer Larry Jones is in a sweet spot with Eight Belles. As the sixth to select, he’ll have no problem netting his big gray filly an agreeable post.


1 Comment

Looking forward to it … I don’t see any one huge favorite, which to me makes it more fun.

Posted by Sports Haven on April 30, 2008 @ 11:50 am