Stronghold runs down favorite Imagination to win the Santa Anita Derby. Sierra Leone and Resilience take wins in other 100-point prep races.
The field for the Kentucky Derby firmed up on Saturday on the last day of major prep races and, despite some doubts, California will have a horse in the race. Stronghold needed at least a third-place finish to get in the first leg of the Triple Crown but did even better with a stirring stretch drive that propelled the 3-year-old colt to a win by a neck in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby. The win was worth 100 qualifying points.
” The $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct gave both Resilience and longshot Society Man enough points to qualify for the Derby with a one-two finish. “The second time I rode him, he kind of got shy away from the horses coming out and didn't want to pass, then all of a sudden everybody passed him at the sixteenth pole,” winning jockey John Velazquez said of the Bill Mott-trained Resilience.
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