Kentucky Derby Profile: King Fury

Both our in-house handicapper take a look at all the horses in the Kentucky Derby.

All their results over the past 12 months are listed below along with their Morning Line Odds and the full field of runners for the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby.

This piece is all about the final winner on the Road to the Kentucky Derby - Lexington winner King Fury. He''ll go off from Post Position #16 and whilst not a play here - don't sleep on him in big races down the road...

Sean's Take...

He certainly improved a good deal off his 2-year-old form in his 2021 debut in the G3 Lexington, a win that netted him a competitive Beyer of 96, however he got a monstrous pace to run at and that race was contested on a sloppy track. He may very well have turned a corner at 3, but I seriously doubt he’s going to get such an ideal setup again and he’s also wheeling back on relatively short rest. He’s not for me this time around, though he could make some noise later in the year if the Lexington proves a harbinger of things to come.

J.N's Take...

Joining the fray as of last Friday Night, this Kenny McPeek router might be coming to the dance fashionably late, but he made it. That is all that counts. The colt out of Curlin ran big last out at Keeneland in the Grade III Lexington Stakes, and that win put these connections into the Derby. Of course, he got some help with the defections of Dream Shake and Hozier. That is the way the Trail bends this late in the year.

Brian Hernandez has had an excellent 2021, first at the Fair Grounds and then at Keeneland. A well-bred 3-yr-old, McPeek has this one going in the proper direction for Three Chimneys, who is a partial owner. Rarely have Lexington S. runners had a chance to make an impact on the KYD. Maybe this is the chance to write some history. McPeek has yet to win this leg of the Triple Crown, so it will be interesting to see how this one runs. His price back at the Fasig-Tipton 2019 Sale was massive at $950k. Time to live up to that hefty price tag...

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