This Week's Kentucky Derby Spotlight Horse- Great Hunter

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After hearing about how there are no California horses on our Top 10 list, we decided to make one of our On the Radar horses, Great Hunter, our spotlight horse of the week.

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Will Great Hunter Get his Prey on the first Saturday in May?

The Grade 1 winning Great Hunter, nicknamed "Little Lava Man" currently sits in our On the Radar section. The son of 2000 Kentucky Derby runner up Aptitude, the Lanes End Breeder's Cup Futurity winner could be a force to be reckoned with come May. Bought for only $30,000 as a yearling at the Keeneland September sale, Great Hunter's current owner, Paul Reddam, purchased him privately after Great Hunter won his maiden at Lone Star in his second start.

He has shown a ton of improvement since adding blinkers. His trainer Doug O'Neil loves his horse saying "he acts like an older horse. I'm excited about him." He even goes so far as to call him his "Little Lava Man."

With a win over our current number 2 Street Sense and our current number 5 Circular Quay, he is deserving of a spot in the Top 10, however that win was on the polytrack. We find it hard to believe he can make up 12 lengths he was beaten by Street Sense over the same Churchill track they will run on in May. But you never know, Great Hunter just might bag the big game and find his way into the winner's circle on the first Saturday in May.