UNBRIDLED'S SONG bids to follow up his Florida Derby and Wood Memorial successes by becoming the first favourite since 1979 to triumph in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs tonight (off at approximately 10.30 p.m.).
Last season's joint juvenile champion has caused his entourage a few headaches after he injured an heel in the Wood Memorial last month, but he worked well on Wednesday morning and is the logical form choice.
If it were all so simple. Unbridled's Song is an excitable sort that could boil over in the preliminaries, and he has been done no favours from the draw as he will starting on the wide outside in stall 20.
No horse has won from this draw since 1929, although his main rival, Skip Away, the impressive Blue Grass Stakes winner, is also drawn high in 17.
Wayne Lukas, the form trainer of recent American Triple Crown races, runs five and the best of his quintet could prove to be Editor's Note, the mount of the shrewd Gary Stevens, and the talented if unreliable Prince Of Thieves.
. Rae Guest's mare Millyant (Cash Asmussen) angles for her fifth French success in the Group Three Prix de SaintGeorges (5f) in Paris tomorrow. Anabaa, in receipt of 5lb, will be the main danger in the four runner field.
Both John Dunlop's Tamnia (Mark Rimmer) and Mark Tompkins' Fag End (Nigel Day) both take their chance in tomorrow's Group Two Arag Preis (1m) (German 1,000 Guineas) at Dusseldorf.
Luca Cumani bids to win the Premio Conte Felice Scheibler, otherwise known as the Derby for Italian breds with Robamaset, (Fernando Jovine) in Rome the same afternoon.
