Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

We are one week from the Kentucky Derby and most of the top contenders have had their final works and unless there are any late injuries, the field is starting to take shape.

Updated April 28

Union Rags (Dixie Union) was third in the Florida Derby, but had a trip from hell He worked on April 28 at Churchill Downs going five furlongs in 59.97 and impressed everyone.
I’ll Have Another (Flower…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

Reveron  has been withdrawn for consideration for the Derby because a left fore condylar fissure was detected following a one-mile workout in 1:46 over a sloppy track at Calder Casino & Race Course Saturday morning (April 21). Trinniberg, winner of the Grade 3 Swale and Grade 3 Bay Shore this year, will run in the Kentucky Derby, owner Shivananda Parbhoo said on Saturday.

The Lumber Guy won the Jerome at Aqueduct on April…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

Trainer Bob Baffert and owner Mike Pegram announced on April 19 that Secret Circle has a sesamoid injury and will miss up to four months. The son of Eddington was being pointed to the Kentucky Derby on May 5 at Churchill Downs. He was second in the Arkansas Derby on April 14 at Oaklawn Park and the injury was detected a few days later. Pegram said the injury would not require surgery.

Updated…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

Bodemeister may have stamped himself as the morning-line favorite in the Kentucky Derby after he dominated the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park. He went right to the lead and re-broke at the quarter-pole to run away and hide. Dullahan picked up the pieces in the Blue Grass after Hansen set very fast early fractions. I don’t think Dullahan is a dirt horse and his connections will be looking for a wet Kentucky Derby…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

Bodemeister may have stamped himself as the morning-line favorite in the Kentucky Derby after he dominated the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park. He went right to the lead and re-broke at the quarter-pole to run away and hide. Dullahan picked up the pieces in the Blue Grass after Hansen set very fast early fractions. I don’t think Dullahan is a dirt horse and his connections will be looking for a wet Kentucky Derby…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

The 2012 Kentucky Derby list stands at 20. Gemologist (Wood) and I’ll Have Another (Santa Anita Derby) were the big winners in the graded earnings standing and locked up a spot in the starting gate on the first Saturday in May. Creative Cause and Alpha both ran game races to finish second their respective races. Done Talking won the Illinois Derby and right now has a spot in the starting gate.

Updated April…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

The 2012 Kentucky Derby list stands at 20. Hero of Order shocks the Louisiana Derby by winning the race at 109-1. That gives the colt $600,000 in graded earnings and a place in the starting gate on the first Saturday in May. I’ll go on record right now and say he doesn’t belong there, but his trainer Gennadi Dorochenko say he’s going. The final time for the mile-and-an-eighth Louisiana Derby was a painfully…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

The 2012 Kentucky Derby list stands at 20. Take Charge Indy won the Florida Derby after a troubled trip by Union Rags in the race. That one rallied to be third, but once again I think jockey Julien Leparoux got a horse in trouble. Daddy Long Legs won the UAE Derby at the Dubai World Cup and trainer Aidan O’Brien is looking very strongly at the Derby.

Updated March 31

Union Rags (Dixie…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

The 2012 Kentucky Derby list stands at 20 plus one. Daddy Nose Best picked up $480,000 on March 25 when he won the Sunland Derby at Sunland Park in New Mexico. The colt also won the El Camino Derby on Feb. 18, so he must be respected. Went the Day Well won the Vinery Racing Spiral at Turfway Park on March 24. He picked up the needed graded money with the win and…

Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

The 2012 Kentucky Derby list stands at 20 plus one. Went the Day Well  won the Vinery Racing Spiral at Turfway Park on March 24. He picked up the needed graded money with the win and now has more than $280,000. Trained by Graham Motion and owned by Team Valor International, the same connections as 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom.

Updated March 24

Union Rags (Dixie Union) dominated in the Fountain of…