“Drill” is the 2-1 favorite in a huge prep race this Saturday for next year’s Kentucky Derby.
Yes, we’re still over 5 months from Kentucky Derby 138, but The Delta Jackpot’s worth a million bucks. So the winner earns 6 hundred thousand dollars, enough to automatically qualify to run for roses May 5th, 2012. The Kentucky Derby is limited to the top 20 graded stakes money winners who enter.
Drill starts from post 6 for Trainer Bob Baffert in a full field of 10. It’s a grade 3 test at Delta Downs in Louisiana, a mile-and-a-sixteenth on real dirt. Baffert’s won 3 Kentucky Derbys (1997 “Silver Charm”, 1998 “Real Quiet”, 2002 “War Emblem”).
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