Edward P. Evans’ Virginia-bred Quality Road, who is coming off back-to-back wins in the Fountain of Youth and the Florida Derby, is the Kentucky Derby future book favorite at two of Las Vegas' most prominent race and sports books.After opening Quality Road at 200-to-1 several months ago, Wynn Las Vegas slashed the price on the son of Elusive Quality to just 5-to-1 after the colt ran two monster Beyer Speed Figures. Down the street and around the corner at the Las Vegas Hilton, oddsmakers Jay Kornegay, Ed Salmons and Charlie Ludlow are offering up Quality Road at a paltry 4-to-1.
Originally, Quality Road was awarded a 103 Beyer when he defeated Dunkirk in the March 28 Florida Derby, but the Beyer team upgraded it to 111 after further review. In the Feb. 28 Fountain of Youth, Quality Road ran a 113 Beyer.
According to various sources, Quality Road’s quarter crack has all but heeled and he galloped well on Wednesday and may breeze on Friday to avoid the rain forecasted for Saturday.
2 comments:
Nice Quality Road story, but didn't I see the exact same thing virtually word-for-word on the Maiden King site?
When you lift info like that, aren't you at least supposed to attribute it to the originator?
Just a thought.
You are correct, it was from Maiden King and in our rush we forgot to give them credit...Duly, noted and problem solved!
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