10 Horses to Win the Derby

Just for fun let’s throw price out the window and find the 10 horses most likely to win the Derby next year. I will just start with the high priced horses and list the one I like the best,

1. #220 Curlin – Isabella Sings by Eskendereya – $350,000 Donegal Partners – Maybe the next Keen Ice, good looking video.
2. #156 Gun Runner – Espirit de Vie by Street Cry – $510,000 Baker and Mack – I love combining Gun Runner with lots of fancy Euro-pedigree from a Danehill second dam.
3. #124 Medaglia de Oro – Dame Dorothy by Bernardini – $650,000 Juddmonte – Combine M de O with the best broodmare sire in the business and you should get a nice horse.
4. #80 Candy Ride – Brilliant Jewel by AP Indy – $450,000 Mayberry Farm – Combine Candy Ride with AP Indy and a Pleasant Tap second dam.
5. #440 Pioneerof the Nile – Temple Street by Street Cry – $450,000 Robert Low – This is my favorite P o N, with Street Cry, Pulpit, and Pleasant Colony on the dam side.
6. #395 American Pharoah – Slow Sand by Dixieland Band – $400,000 My Meadowview – My favorite American Pharoah from the same dam as King Guillermo, and a Seattle Slew second dam.
7. #597 Twirling Candy – Giant Win by Giant’s Causeway – $385,000 Lanni and Starlight, Not my favorite Twirling Candy, but maybe Donato knows what he is doing.
8. #1878 Twirling Candy – My Own Story by Lasting Approval – $375,000 Lanni and Starlight bid up another Twirling Candy
9. Classic Empire – Victory Party by Yankee Victor – $350,000 Winchell, dam of Beholder
10. Union Rags – Mr Short Fuze – Zensational – $650,000 Lanni and Starlight, dam of Cloud Computing

Let’s also do the same thing for the Fasig-Tipton sale.

1. #447 Maclean’s Music – War Relic by Pulpit – $400,000 Donato Lanni and Starlight. same cross as Cloud Computing, first Donato Lanni horse I like
2. #239 Street Sense – Mia and Molly by Giant’s Causeway – $150,000 West Point, great. looking, good female family
3. #323 Classic Empire – Rever de Vous – Distorted Humor – $375,000 Liz Crow, second dam by El Prado
4. #457 Pioneerof the Nile – Wynning Ride by Candy Ride – $470,000 Brad Anderson. let’s try Candy Ride as a broodmare sire
5. #324 Pioneerof the Nile – R Gypsy Gold by Bernardini – $400,000 Ken McPeek. The best broodmare sire
6. #444 Connect – Vindy City by Vindication – $120,000 West Point, I just love the “long” look of the horse in the West Point photo and the comment a lot of Seattle Slew