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Horse racing took the fancy of both ABC and CBS. They both closed their newscasts with a reference to Barbaro, last year's Derby winner, who broke down while racing and died despite heroic surgery. CBS' Sharyn Alfonsi showed us Barbaro's full brother, a recently-born foal romping across the fields of a Kentucky stud. ABC's Dean Reynolds inspected the polytrack at Keeneland in Lexington, the more forgiving rubberized surface under a waxy coating that race courses are laying to try to keep thoroughbreds sound: "Racing, after all, should be about winning and losing--not life and death."
As for our possible winnings on Saturday, Alfonsi had this advice. Curlin has only raced three times. Storm in May is blind in one eye. Pletcher's Platoon is the nickname for the five horses entered by trainer Todd Pletcher, led by Circular Quay. Alfonsi plumped on Teuflesberg, only the thirteenth horse in Kentucky Derby history to be trained by a woman.
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