Derby Horses

Current Odds: 3-1 Smart Strike--Private Feeling, by Belong to Me

Prep Race History

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Date Race Grade Distance Finish Chart Video
Apr 3 2010 Santa Anita Derby Santa Anita Park I 1 1/8 Mile 3
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Mar 13 2010 Rebel Stakes Oaklawn Park II 1 1/16 Mile 1
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Dec 19 2009 CashCall Futurity Hollywood Park I 1 1/16 1
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Connections

Bob Baffert

Trainer

Baffert captured the world’s attention after sending Silver Charm and Real Quiet to back-to-back wins in the Kentucky Derby in 1997 and 1998 followed up by War Emblem in 2002. Bob Baffert has saddled 19 horses in the Run for the Roses. He is in the Hall of Fame and has won the Eclipse Award for top trainer three times. Baffert has saddled two Kentucky Oaks winners, Silverbulletday and Plum Pretty.

Garrett Gomez

Jockey

Garrett won back-to-back Eclipses for Outstanding Jockey in 2007 and 2008, has won ten Breeders’ Cup races, and won the Shoemaker Award for top performance by a jockey at the Breeders’ Cup in 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2010.Garrett won the 2007 Kentucky Oaks on Rags to Riches and has made nine appearances in the Kentucky Derby with his best finish coming in 2009 on Pioneerofthe Nile, who ran second. 

Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, Paul Weitman

Owner

Pegram, Watson, and Weitman all have horses with trainer Bob Baffert.Pegram suggested to Watson and Weitman to buy some horses together. The first horse they purchased was Midnight Lute, who won back-to-back editions of the Breeders’ Cup sprint in 2007 and 2008 and won the Eclipse for Champion Sprinter.Pegram owns a string of McDonald’s restaurants in Arizona, and Watson and Weitman own car dealerships in Tuscan, Arizona.Watson first had horses with trainer Jack Van Berg, before teaming up with Weitman in the mid-1990s and sending horses to Baffert.

Gulf Coast Farms

Breeder

Owned and run by Jerry Bailey and Lance Robinson.

Pedigree

  • By two-time leading sire Smart Strike, winner of the nine-furlong Philip H. Iselin H. (G1) in 1996
  • Sire's best son is two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, North America's all-time leading money earner and 2007 Preakness S. (G1) winner
  • Other notable runners by Smart Strike include champion turf horse English Channel, top sprinter Fabulous Strike and Canadian Horse of the Year Soaring Free
  • Smart Strike's progeny are a versatile bunch, ranging from sprinters to marathoners on all kinds of surfaces
  • Lookin at Lucky's dam, Private Feeling, has also produced 2009 Jim Dandy S. (G2) and Dwyer S. (G2) winner Kensei
  • Private Feeling is a daughter of multiple Grade 3-winning sprinter Belong to Me, whose other exceptional fillies include champion turf mare Forever Together
  • Lookin at Lucky is bred on the same cross as Papa Clem, last year's Arkansas Derby (G2) winner and fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby (G1); both are by Smart Strike out of mares by Belong to Me
  • Belong to Me's other daughters have produced the likes of Circular Quay, winner of the 2007 Louisiana Derby (G2), and Radiohead (GB), a smart juvenile last year
  • Lookin at Lucky comes from the same family as champion filly Wait a While
  • Figures to inherit more stamina from his sire's half of the pedigree than from his dam's side

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