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2010 Kentucky Derby Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 5/1/2010
The Kentucky Derby is just around the corner. Finally. I start watching two year olds closely every year in about mid-August in hopes of spotting the ones that will be a factor in early May. It's all in preparation for my favorite sporting event of the year. Sadly, it doesn't turn into a winning day at the windows as often as it should. I put that down to the fact that no race is tougher to handicap than the Kentucky Derby. Or more compelling. With all the preparation over, and nothing left but the waiting, it's time to make some final 2010 Kentucky Derby predictions.
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2010 Kentucky Derby Preview
by Robert Ferringo - 4/30/2010
We're just over 24 hours away from the Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports as we set up for the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby. This year's field is as wide open as any in recent memory. California turf horses are dominating the roster, turf horses are prohibitive favorites, the weather could again be a factor, the best three-year-old in the country isn't in the race, and beyond that it's just like every other race at Churchill Downs.
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2010 Kentucky Derby Picks
by Trevor Whenham - 4/30/2010
There can never be enough ways to bet on the Kentucky Derby. It's the greatest single betting event of the year, so the more ways to 'invest' your money, the better. To help you in this pursuit, Bodog has released a impressive number of prop bets to give you different ways to bet and win. Here's a look at some of the more interesting ones and I will offer some Kentucky Derby picks to help fatten your bankroll:
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Kentucky Derby Handicapping: The Post Position Draw
by Robert Ferringo - 4/29/2010
Well, it wasn't exactly the NBA lottery draw, but the Kentucky Derby post position draw took place on Wednesday evening and the field for the Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports is now set. To the untrained eye the post positioning may seem like a random factor of little consequence. After all, it's a race, right?
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2010 Kentucky Derby Trends
by Trevor Whenham - 4/28/2010
It used to be that there were trends in the Kentucky Derby that you just couldn't argue with, and which made it easy to rule horses out of betting consideration. The times they are a-changing when it comes to preparing horses for the Derby, though, so much of what used to be all but guaranteed just isn't as reliable or applicable anymore. Here's a look at a few of the more time-tested Kentucky Derby trends to see how they are holding up, and how they affect this year's race:
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2010 Kentucky Derby Pace Scenario
by Trevor Whenham - 4/28/2010
Some people have nightmares about monsters, death, or falling. Mine are about the 2001 Kentucky Derby. That year I was absolutely and totally in love with Point Given, the massive Bob Baffert-trained son of Thunder Gulch. He won the Preakness and the Belmont that year with ease, and was the best horse we have seen in the Triple Crown races during the painful 32 year Triple Crown drought (a bold claim, but I stand behind it).
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2010 Kentucky Derby Jockeys
by Trevor Whenham - 4/27/2010
The horses get most of the attention in the Kentucky Derby, with the trainers a distant second. The guys who really deserve the most attention, though, are the jockeys. There isn't another race in which the jockeys play a bigger role or have to do more to get their horse to the finish line. The horses in the Derby are at such an early stage in their personal development, and they are facing so many new things in this race - the field size, the level of talent, the craziness of the crowd - that the winning horse isn't always the best, but the one that the jockey was best able to calm down and get focused.
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Fillies in the 2010 Kentucky Derby
by Trevor Whenham - 4/27/2010
For just the third time in the last 12 years, it looks like there is going to be a filly - a female horse - in the Kentucky Derby. Top trainer Todd Pletcher has signified his intention to send Devil May Care into the Derby instead of the Kentucky Oaks, the race she was originally targeting. The move comes as a bit of a surprise - Pletcher has had as many as eight horses pointing at the Derby in recent weeks, but this filly was not mentioned among that group until Pletcher let it be known that he was considering the move.
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Printable Kentucky Derby Trivia Questions and Answers
by Trevor Whenham - 4/27/2010
If there's one thing that is obviously undeniable it's that girls dig guys who are good at trivia. The more obscure the better. If you can answer all of these Kentucky Derby trivia questions properly then you'll be a trivia god, and the girls will be all over you on Derby day. Be warned, though - these questions are very hard:
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Kentucky Derby Favorite Eskendereya Out
by Trevor Whenham - 4/25/2010
In the biggest shock of the 2010 Kentucky Derby, Eskendereya, the heavily-favored, Todd Pletcher-trained horse that was likely to go off at less than 2/1 after winning the Wood Memorial in stunningly powerful fashion, has been scratched from consideration for the race less than a week before post time. Pletcher isn't being very specific, but a left leg 'issue' was detected after his workout on Saturday, and it didn't resolve itself overnight.
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Horses that can Win the 2010 Kentucky Derby
by Trevor Whenham - 4/23/2010
If there is one thing that Mine That Bird last year, and horses like Giacomo and Monarchos before him, have taught us it's that any horse that starts the Kentucky Derby can win it. That being said, there are some horses that just plain have a better chance of winning it all than others. When lesser horses have won the race it's typically because a strange pace scenario has forced horses to throw out their gameplans and just make it up as they go along. A bad pace - too fast usually - can cause the whole race to explode, and leave it for an unlikely horse to pick up the pieces.
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Kentucky Derby Betting Tips
by Trevor Whenham - 4/22/2010
To mix sports metaphors, the Kentucky Derby is the Super Bowl for horseplayers. Like the Super Bowl it isn't necessarily the best event to bet on, and it definitely isn't the easiest, but it's the biggest stage, and the one that everyone wants to be a part of. The Super Bowl isn't, for any number of reasons, just another football game. In the same way, the Kentucky Derby is the furthest thing possible from just another horse race. The field size, the crowd, the pressure, and the intensity of the focus on the event make it absolutely unique.
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Kentucky Derby Contenders
by Trevor Whenham - 4/22/2010
This is a fairly unique Kentucky Derby field. In many years the problem is trying to sort through the several top-level contenders that all seem like they are good enough to win. This year the trick is, instead, to find a few legitimate, impressive contenders from among a field of flawed and mostly underwhelming horses through the prep season. That's not to say that this is a lousy class of three year olds - it's impossible to judge that for months.
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Todd Pletcher at the Kentucky Derby
by Trevor Whenham - 4/22/2010
Some editions of the Kentucky Derby feature one storyline that eclipses all others. Two years ago it was the dominance of Big Brown. In 2000 it was as if Fusaichi Pegasus was the only horse on the planet. This year the story is unquestionably the ridiculous embarrassment of riches that trainer Todd Pletcher has at hand.
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Kentucky Derby Futures Odds and Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 4/15/2010
It seems hard to believe, but the Kentucky Derby is just over two weeks away. Almost all of the horses that will enter the gate on the first Saturday of May have run their last prep race, so all that's left for us to do is to evaluate where they are at and who we like. On useful tool in doing that is to use Kentucky Derby futures odds. Those futures can serve two main purposes.
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Kentucky Derby Last Ten Winners: Where Are They Now?
Ever what wonder what happened to winners of the Kentucky Derby? The oldest survivor is the resident queen of Bertram and Diana Firestone's Newstead Farm near Upperville, Virginia.
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Kentucky Derby Party -- Infield or Clubhouse: A Kentuckian's Advice on Throwing a Derby Bash
by Kaelan Hollon
Staring down the long, cold barrel of a Kentucky State Trooper's handgun at 2:49 in the morning in the first weekend of May is not a fun way to bide time. Kentucky takes its horses very, very seriously, and attempting to hop on a $120,000 thoroughbred during one's stay in the Bluegrass State does not a good Derby Day make, as a friend of mine recently found out. Handcuffs hurt. And the jails in the Commonwealth? Let me tell you something, Bubba, they ain't a bit of fun.
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Kentucky Derby Betting Tips
by Trevor Whenham
The Kentucky Derby won't be here for several weeks, but I'm already dreaming of cashing a big ticket, and I'm sure I'm not alone in those thoughts. In my mind nothing is more exciting than the Derby, and the lead up and anticipation is almost too much to take. It's way too early to do any serious handicapping because we won't have a good idea of the field for several weeks. What we can do, though, is put some thought into our methodology so that we're ready to make a logical pick when the time comes. Here, then, are seven tips and thoughts that you can let bounce around your mind until the real handicapping can begin:
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