Top Ten 2015 Derby Contenders

[Arletta]

Who do you like so far? Perhaps we have yet to see the winner of next year's Kentucky Derby.

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[Arletta]

Leave the Light on Off Derby Trail.

Leave the Light On, winner of the Remsen Stakes his last start, injured a hind ankle in a workout last weekend, needs surgery, and is off the Triple Crown trail, trainer Chad Brown said Thursday.

“He needs a couple of months off,” Brown said from Florida, where Leave the Light On has been training at the Palm Meadows training center. “It’s obviously very disappointing, but the long-term prognosis is good. We’re doing the right thing and stopping now.”

Brown said Leave the Light On will have surgery on his right hind ankle on Monday at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., where Dr. Larry Bramlage will perform the surgery.

Brown said that Bramlage gave him an encouraging prognosis regarding Leave the Light On and he believed the colt could return to race by the fall.

“But we won’t rush him. We’ll let the horse tell us. We’re looking at the long run with the horse,” Brown said.

Leave the Light On, a 3-year-old colt by Horse Greeley, has won twice in three starts. He was seventh in his debut at Belmont, beat maidens in his next start, then won the Remsen.

Leave the Light On was purchased for $210,000 at Ocala last April by co-owners William Lawrence and the Klaravich Stables of Seth Klarman.

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Carpe Diem

[freddymo]

Mr Zayat informed me today thru twitter that American Pharaoh is fastest 3 year old in land and the best colt he ever had. "El Kabeir doesnt breathe the same air"

I think El Kabeir is pretty good and so is Upstart who to me is the best guess to win Derby in the infant stages of 2015 racing.