11 Reincarnate (3-1, morning-line favorite) bounced back from a 13th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby with a gate-to-wire triumph in the Los Alamitos Derby on July 8. Trainer Steve Asmussen and jockey Tyler Gaffalione team up once again with t he speedy son of Tapit. He was last seen beating a next-out winner going a testing 1 1/8-miles at Saratoga. 4 Magic Tap (5-1) could make his stakes debut a winning one if all goes well.
Saudi Crown is training forwardly for the Pennsylvania Derby and retains Cox's first-call jockey in Florent Geroux. I would be very surprised if this Brad Cox trainee is not favored come post time, especially following the post draw, as main rival Reincarnate was slammed with the far outside draw.Īlso of note is that Saudi Crown ran a huge last-out second to Forte in the Grade II Jim Dandy on a sloppy track, and there's plenty of precipitation in the forecast at Parx this Saturday.
3 Saudi Crown (7-2) is a pair of noses away from being undefeated in his brief four-start career, and the speed figures he earned in his two route tries tower above the competition.
