Ohio Derby 2022: Odds, pace projection, preview, more

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Three acquainted names from the 2022 Kentucky Derby lead one other derby Saturday happening a number of hours northeast of Churchill Downs.

Tawny Port (3-1) is morning-line favourite for the Grade 3, $500,000 Ohio Derby. Publish time from Thistledown is 5:35 p.m. EDT, with TVG exhibiting the 1 1/8-mile stakes for 3-year-old runners.

Educated by Brad Cox, Tawny Port is one in every of three Kentucky Derby runners competing Saturday. White Abarrio (7-2) and Basic Causeway (6-1) additionally ran Might 7 for the roses, whereas Ethereal Street (4-1) scratched the morning of Might 6, opening up a spot for upset winner Wealthy Strike.

Tawny Port had the perfect Kentucky Derby end of the Ohio Derby trio, crossing in seventh place. Three weeks previous to that race, he received Keeneland’s Lexington Stakes (G3), two weeks after ending as runner-up within the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) at Turfway Park.

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. will go away Belmont Park and experience Tawny Port on Saturday at Thistledown. He’s the fourth completely different jockey to climb aboard the Pioneerof the Nile colt in his 4 most up-to-date begins.

White Abarrio is a Grade 1 winner courting to his Florida Derby victory April 2 at Gulfstream Park for coach Saffie Joseph Jr. He will get a dose of sophistication reduction Saturday after operating extensive within the Kentucky Derby and ending sixteenth.

D. Wayne Lukas trains Ethereal Street, who was off the board in each the Blue Grass Stakes (G1) and Lexington in April at Keeneland. After scratching out of the Derby discipline, he received the Sir Barton Stakes on the Preakness Stakes undercard Might 21 at Pimlico.

Basic Causeway exits back-to-back Eleventh-place in each the Kentucky Derby and the Florida Derby. The Tampa Bay Derby (G2) hero who was previously educated by Brian Lynch will make his first begin for Kenny McPeek’s barn.

Three Ohio Derby starters weren’t entered within the Kentucky Derby, with Barese (9-2) carrying the shortest morning-line odds of that trio. He got here dwelling third April 23 at Aqueduct in a stakes race for New York-bred sophomores.

Here’s a take a look at the sphere for the 2022 Ohio Derby (coach and jockey in parentheses) with morning-line odds:

1. Barese (Mike Maker, Kendrick Carmouche), 9-2

2. Brigadier Common, SCR

3. Droppin G’s (Jerry Antonuik, Malcolm Franklin), 8-1

4. Ethereal Street (D. Wayne Lukas, Rafael Bejarano), 4-1

5. White Abarrio (Saffie Joseph Jr., Tyler Gaffalione), 7-2

6. Pineapple Man (Mike Maker, T.D. Houghton), 10-1

7. Tawny Port (Brad Cox, Irad Ortiz Jr.), 3-1

8. Basic Causeway (Kenny McPeek, Brian Hernandez Jr.), 6-1

TimeformUS’ tempo projections present Basic Causeway going out to the early lead below jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. Favourite Tawny Port is anticipated to do his operating late.

Different Saturday stakes

Here’s a take a look at different stakes races of word happening Saturday throughout the U.S. All put up instances are EDT.

4:40 p.m. – $250,000 Mom Goose Stakes (G2), 3-year-old fillies, 1 1/16 miles, Belmont Park, FS2

Juju’s Map (1-1), Alcibiades Stakes (G1) heroine as a 2-year-old, returns to stakes flight for the primary time since ending second final November within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Jockey Florent Geroux will get the decision on the Liam’s Map filly, last-out allowance winner Might 6 at Churchill Downs, for coach Brad Cox. Todd Pletcher trains Shahama (9-5), a Group 3 winner abroad who was sixth on the identical Churchill card within the Kentucky Oaks, which marked her North American debut. Venti Valentine (5-1) crossed final of 14 within the Oaks for coach Jorge Abreu.

4:48 p.m. – $250,000 Woman Jacqueline Stakes, 3-and-up fillies and mares, 1 1/8 miles, Thistledown, TVG

Military Spouse (3-1) makes the second begin of her 4-year-old season after operating third June 4 at Churchill within the Shawnee Stakes. Mike Maker trains and Tyler Gaffalione rides the Declaration of Battle filly, a Grade 2 winner. Kenny McPeek trains Loopy Stunning (7-2), a two-time Grade 2 victor who was sixth April 22 at Keeneland within the Doubledogdare Stakes (G3). Maracuja (4-1), upset winner of final July’s Teaching Membership American Oaks (G1), ran fourth April 23 at Oaklawn Park within the Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) for coach Rob Atras.

4:55 p.m. – $200,000 Chicago Stakes (G3), 4-and-up fillies and mares, seven furlongs, Churchill Downs, FS2

Sconsin (2-1) goals for her sixth profession win below the Twin Spires on this stakes that previously came about on the now-shuttered Arlington Park. Jockey Mitchell Murrill will get a leg up from coach Greg Foley on the 5-year-old Embrace mare, a Grade 2 victor who took Churchill’s Profitable Colours Stakes (G3) on Might 30. Cox trains Woman Rocket (5-2), who seems for a second profession Grade 3 win off a third-place exhibiting Might 8 at Belmont Park within the Ruffian Stakes (G2). 2020 Derby Metropolis Distaff (G1) heroine Bell’s the One (7-2) was fourth Might 7 at Churchill within the 2022 version of that occasion.