2007 Kentucky Derby Contenders
by: Cindy Pierson Dulay, Article and Photos Courtesy of: horse-races.net

Here is my ongoing look at the contenders for the 2007 Kentucky Derby to be run on May 5th. The major preps are all over now and the field is starting to sort itself out. Keep an eye on this page as I will be updating it regularly as more info is available and adding or removing horses as needed.

Jockey assignments are still tentative at this point and won't start to firm up until much closer to the race. We now know who the dual qualifiers are as the Experimental Free Handicap was released on January 25 and the early Triple Crown nominations were just released on February 4. I have put a star beside their dosage index in the list below. It is still early in the game and anything could still happen.

Horse, Trainer, Dosage, Jockey

Any Given Saturday Todd Pletcher 2.67 * Garrett Gomez

Bwana Bull Jerry Hollendorfer 3.40 Javier Castellano

Circular Quay Todd Pletcher 2.08 * John Velazquez

Cowtown Cat Todd Pletcher 2.60 Fernanado Jara

Curlin Steve Asmussen 4.00 Robby Albarado

Dominican Darrin Miller 4.33 Rafael Bejarano

E Z Warrior Bob Baffert 3.00 David Flores

Great Hunter Doug O'Neill 3.00 * Corey Nakatani

Hard Spun Larry Jones 2.67 Mario Pino

Liquidity Doug O'Neill 1.86 * David Flores

Nobiz Like Shobiz Barclay Tagg 1.44 * Cornelio Velasquez

Sam P Todd Pletcher 1.75 Ramon Dominguez

Scat Daddy Todd Pletcher 2.47 * Edgar Prado

Sedgefield Darrin Miller 3.00 Julien Leparoux

Storm in May William Kaplan 3.73 Juan Leyva

Stormello Bill Currin 2.67 * Kent Desormeaux

Street Sense Carl Nafzger 2.14 * Calvin Borel

Summer Doldrums Richard Violette Jr. 3.67 Mike Luzzi

Teuflesberg Jamie Sanders 2.27 Stewart Elliott

Tiago John Shirreffs 1.91 Mike Smith

Xchanger Mark Shuman 3.00 Joe Bravo

Zanjero Steve Asmussen 3.50 Shaun Bridgmohan



Off the Trail

Adore the Gold Michael Gorham 2.20 not going

Buffalo Man Cam Gamolati 1.43 ankle injury

Cobalt Blue Doug O'Neill 1.55 not going

Ketchikan Al Stall Jr. 2.11 injured

King of the Roxy Todd Pletcher 3.00 * skipping the Derby

Notional Doug O'Neill 2.33 injured

Officer Rocket Robert Holthus 3.00 not going

Ravel Todd Pletcher 3.00 leg injury

Tiz Wonderful Steve Asmussen 2.11 * tendon injury



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