The American Pharoah is the first Kentucky Derby points race on the West Coast this season. The card has three Breeders' Cup qualifying races.
The start of the West Coast path to the Kentucky Derby starts Saturday at Santa Anita Park with the running of the Grade 1 $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes. But, the new question facing the business is do the races for 2-year-olds mean as much as they used to? There was a time when conditioning a horse meant getting a good foundation under them by running them a lot before the Triple Crown series. Not so much anymore.
But realistically, if a horse gets all its points early and none later, when the races are worth more, then they are likely not in good enough running form to enter in the Derby. Saturday’s race has eight projected starters although missing will be the 2-year-old currently thought to be Bob Baffert’s best. He had considered entering Prince of Monaco in the American Pharoah but decided he wanted to go to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 3 with a “fresh” horse.
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