The road to the Kentucky Derby runs through....

[taxicab]

Kentucky.
The Kentucky circuit has been a level above CAL/FLA/NY to date,well represented by the following stakes winners:

Classic Empire
Cool Arrow
Lookin At Lee
McCraken
Uncontested


Also worth mentioning:
Petrov......2nd in stakes @ AQU/OP.
Senior Investment.......came home like a wild horse @ OP Saturday,notching his third in a row(DQ two back).......definitely looks stakes worthy now.
Silver Dust.......a 500k purchase with a bright future(running Monday in The Southwest).

And let's not forget last years BC Juvenile at Santa Anita,dominated by Kentucky horses(including the now retired Not This Time).
Needless to say,the early Derby compass points directly at the Bluegrass State.