The five-time Eclipse Award winner for outstanding jockey has been the regular rider for leading Kentucky Derby contenders Renegade, Commandment and Further Ado.
Seven older horses with more than $26 million in combined earnings are entered.
Now, they should meet again June 7 at the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
“I’m not sure what her ceiling is,” said Cox, her trainer. “I’m not sure there is one … she always passes the eyeball test.”
All week, I've been on a search for somebody eager to confidently pick the Derby winner.
Godolphin Racing’s Good Cheer has earned everything but a Grade 1. The talented filly is unbeaten in six starts for trainer Brad Cox, and will break from the No. 10 post as the likely favorite for the $1.25 million Kentucky Oaks.
The Derby favorite did not work. Stop the presses. Journalism merely galloped.
WinStar Farm’s Tappan Street, trained by Brad Cox and scheduled to be ridden by Luis Saez in the Kentucky Derby, suffered a condylar fracture in his right foreleg during a workout Saturday and Churchill Downs and is out of the race.
No, Bob Baffert does not consider himself The Face of Horse Racing.
Despite the training of two Triple Crown winners as well as six horses that have won the Kentucky Derby.
They don’t write songs about what unfolds on the third Saturday of April at Churchill Downs.