No lie: Pants On Fire on AP's Top 10 Derby list
Welcome to the Kentucky Derby, Pants On Fire. Same to you, Animal Kingdom and Twice the Appeal.
A weekend full of surprises at tracks in Louisiana, Kentucky and New Mexico has put these 3-year-olds on the AP's latest Run to the Roses Top 10 list of Derby contenders.
Pants On Fire upset Mucho Macho Man in the Louisiana Derby, Animal Kingdom took the Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park and 35-1 long shot Twice the Appeal won the Sunland Derby to create a minor Top 10 shuffle.
Uncle Mo and The Factor remain 1-2, with Pants On Fire at No. 7, Animal Kingdom No. 9 and Twice the Appeal No. 10.
Top-10 horses Soldat and Stay Thirsty, along with former top-10 horses To Honor and Serve and Dialed In are set to run in Sunday's Florida Derby.
HORSE headlines
- No lie: Pants On Fire on AP's Top 10 Derby list
- Santa Anita goes back to 4-day race week
- Repreive wins the Aqueduct feature
- Road to The Kentucky Derby
- Worth Repeating wins Tokyo City Cup at Santa Anita
- Animal Kingdom surges to win in Spiral Stakes
- Pants On Fire takes Louisiana Derby
- R Betty Graybull wins the Big A's Ladies Handicap
- Japan's Victoire Pisa wins Dubai World Cup
- Rewilding wins $5 million Dubai Sheema Classic
- Presvis wins $5 million Dubai Duty Free
- Khawlah wins $2 million UAE Derby
- Kinsale King out of Dubai Golden Shaheen
- Purrfect Bluff wins Big A feature
- Trainer Bob Baffert out of Dubai's big horse race
- Sweet Ducky may run in Kentucky Derby
- Calle Vista wins Santa Anita feature
- Devilish Spirit wins Big A feature
- World's richest race has wide-open 14-horse field
- No clear favorite at Dubai World Cup
- Dubai World Cup offers relief for Japan
- Buena Vista heads Japan challenge at World Cup
- Who's the Cowboy wins the Big A feature
- Gio Ponti among 14 horses entered for World Cup
- Village People's Derby choice: Mucho Macho Man
- Juniper Pass takes San Luis Rey at Santa Anita
- Prince Dubai wins Big A feature
- Road to The Kentucky Derby
- Malibu Pier, Bejarano win Santa Ana at Santa Anita
- The Factor easily wins Derby prep Rebel Stakes
