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Final totals: Win wagering $494,263; exacta wagering $137,041; total $631,304 (record for a single future pool). Morning-line (ML) odds by Mike Battaglia. Pool 2 will be March 2-4 and Pool 3 March 30-April 1.  

The first pool for the 2012 Kentucky Derby Future Wager will be open for both win and exacta wagering from February 10-12. As usual, the field is the morning ...Read Full Post  

The Derby offers three future wagering pools:  February 10-12, March 2-4, and March 30-April 1. You can place both win and exacta bets, potentially (key word) getting much higher odds on horses now than you will on Derby day. The Future Wager ...  

Trainer Nick Zito can blame both the wet track and start, and the two-time Derby winner hopes to draw a line through Casual Trick's effort. The Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes was the main event at Gulfstream Park and featured an impressive victory from ...  

This year there willl once again be three future wager pools for the Kentucky Derby on February 10-12, March 2-4, and March 30-April 1 with both exacta and win wagering. ...Read Full Post  

As for Casual Trick, he is by Bernardini out of Casual Look by Red Ransom. This is a highly touted prospect from trainer Nick Zito and owner Robert V. La Penta. Same connections as last year's Derby favorite, Dialed In. He is being pointed to the Fountain ...  

Cornelio Velasquez was aboard as the 5-year-old gelding ran six furlongs in 1:10.71. Frazil, the 5-2 second choice in the four-horse field, paid $7 and $3.90 while Pretty Boy Freud returned $5.60. This Ones for Phil was third, followed by 3-5 ...  

Gold Megillah is by Purim out of the Touch Gold mare Touch Me Once. Nick Zito, who trained 2011 Florida Derby winner Dialed In, will saddle Casual Trick, a son of Bernardini, in Sunday's race. He is another with a single win, also at Churchill ...  

Throw a party for 138th Kentucky DerbyDelmarva NowKentucky is well-known for the famous Kentucky Derby, and this year brings the 138th "Running for the Roses" at Churchhill Downs in Louisville. Fans from around the world who attend are amazed and hold dear to the customs and traditions of the "most ...  

Kentucky Derby Festival payout: Economic impact put at nearly $128 millionLouisville Courier-JournalThe 2011 Thunder Over Louisville Fireworks Show is credited with bringing in $56.6 million, the most of any one Kentucky Derby Festival event. / By Michael Dossett, Special to The Courier-Journa The annual Kentucky Derby Festival generates nearly $128 ...Study finds increased Kentucky Derby Festival impactLouisville Business FirstSTUDY: Kentucky...  

Bleacher ReportUnion Rags returns to work tab with easy three-furlong breezeDaily Racing FormMatz is hoping to run Union Rags just twice prior to the Kentucky Derby. Those two starts are expected to come in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth here Feb. 26 and the Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 31. Matz used the Florida Derby as his final prep prior ...Kentucky Derby Trail: A Complete Early Look at the Road to the RosesBleacher Reportall 3 news...  

Commentary: Early Odds Sometimes Burn BooksFort Smith Times RecordSurprised a future bet on the Kentucky Derby is still offered at a sports book, I scribbled down the odds next to the name of the eight runners in the Oaklawn Park race that Las Vegas deemed worthy of consideration. Few of the more than 300 other ...  

Lecomte Stakes, an early Kentucky Derby prep, draws field of 13Louisville Courier-JournalIn the dumps now that the Christmas and New Year's celebrations are over? Missing all those great...- 5:56 pm A near-capacity field of 13 three-year-olds was entered Wednesday for Saturday's $175000, Grade II Lecomte Stakes, which kicks off the road to ...  

The Buzz | Kentucky Derby Festival poster sneak peekLouisville Courier-JournalTed Nugent & Louisville improv festival this week ...: The longest-running improv comedy festival in the south continues this weekend in Louisville as well as a new release from Nora Jones' 'other band' and Dan Klepal explains why Ted Nugent is someone ...and more »