One more spot open in the Derby
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from the Louisville Courier-Journal:
Terrain, who finished fourth in Saturday's Toyota Blue Grass Stakes, is off the Kentucky Derby trail and will be pointed toward the Lone Star Derby a week later, trainer Al Stall said today.
"The horse is fine," Stall said of the Sky Mesa gelding, who is owned by Adele Dilschneider. "We just feel he's not quite a Derby horse. We got our heads together and thought since he might be a second-tier horse that we'd point to the Lone Star Derby right now."
Terrain was third in the Louisiana Derby in his first start at 3, missing second by a head to Papa Clem, who went on to win the Arkansas Derby. He won last year's Arlington-Washington Futurity on a double disqualification, was second in the Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland, a closing fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita and fifth in the Delta Jackpot.
At $443,330, he had plenty of graded earnings to make the field if his connections desired.
Meanwhile, trainer Chris block said a Derby decision on Illinois Derby runner-up Giant Oak probably won't be made until Monday.
Terrain, who finished fourth in Saturday's Toyota Blue Grass Stakes, is off the Kentucky Derby trail and will be pointed toward the Lone Star Derby a week later, trainer Al Stall said today.
"The horse is fine," Stall said of the Sky Mesa gelding, who is owned by Adele Dilschneider. "We just feel he's not quite a Derby horse. We got our heads together and thought since he might be a second-tier horse that we'd point to the Lone Star Derby right now."
Terrain was third in the Louisiana Derby in his first start at 3, missing second by a head to Papa Clem, who went on to win the Arkansas Derby. He won last year's Arlington-Washington Futurity on a double disqualification, was second in the Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland, a closing fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita and fifth in the Delta Jackpot.
At $443,330, he had plenty of graded earnings to make the field if his connections desired.
Meanwhile, trainer Chris block said a Derby decision on Illinois Derby runner-up Giant Oak probably won't be made until Monday.