Known Agenda

[shoes]

I watched the Florida Derby a couple of more times yesterday. On the one hand KA had a dream trip sitting 5th at the rail with no time where he had to check or have his momentum arrested, then angled out and cruised by the tiring leaders. On the other hand he looked very responsive to Irad's directions and when asked to move up a bit on the rail and then angle out, he did so effortlessly. Much has been made of his clear improvement in the last 2 with blinkers added, but unless the Bris advance form I have is inaccurate, it shows added lasix 2 back and then no lasix in his last. Is that true? If it is, why and will he be running on lasix on May 1?

[1hooper]

Courier-Journal.

Kentucky began a partial elimination of race-day Lasix, the trade name for furosemide, with 2-year-old races in 2020. This year, the ban extended to stakes races — including the Kentucky Derby — as the sport moved toward a complete elimination of Lasix by July 1, 2022, which is when the Horseracing Integrity And Safety Act is scheduled to go into effect.
As part of this year’s new rules, horses that ran on race-day Lasix could not accumulate qualifying points toward this year’s Kentucky Derby.

TDN

For a Feb. 26 allowance confidence-builder at Gulfstream, trainer Todd Pletcher added both blinkers and Lasix (which is permitted in non-stakes races for 3-year-olds in Florida).

[shoes]

Thanks much hoop!

PS, I'm an idiot, now I see that none of the contenders ran on lasix in at least their most recent prep. I guess that explains in part why speed figs are down.