4/5 Keenland Race 7

Take a look at #3 Epic Ride ML 6-1.

There are a couple pf things that caught my eye with this colt.

#1 he got into last year's Derby off the AE list. He showed early speed coming way over for post #20  & was 5th at the 3/4 pole @ 47-1. He got banged around in the cavalry charge, shied away a little in all the traffic & ended up 14th of 20.

#2 Prior to the Derby, he ran in the Toyota Bluegrass Stakes @ KEENELAND where he ran 3rd from post #8 to Sierra Leone & Just a Touch while going off @ 51-1.

#3 After the Derby, he raced again in the Perryville @ KEENELAND breaking from post 12 & finished in a DH for 3rd @ 15-1 in a real game effort. He ended the 2024 season running 2nd at Turfway as the chalk getting caught at the wire.

#4 He's raced twice in 2025 winning both @ Turfway convincingly as the chalk by 3.5 & 5 lengths.

#5 Love that he breaks well out of the gate & post #3 on Saturday should help him stay out of traffic in this 12 horse field.

#6 The same connections stay together here with jockey Luan Machado winning @18% for small trainer John Ennis who wins @ 22%.

#7 He will have to beat a NY shipper for Wesley Ward in # 11 Wathatalkinabout & #10 Extra Anejo for Asmussen & #2 Montalcino for Cherie DeVaux who has tons of speed.

#8 I think we'll get better than the ML 6-1 odds with plenty of money being played on the Ortiz Brothers & Flavien Prat on the 3 horses mentioned above.

Friday & Saturday racing @ Keeneland has been canceled due to expected bad weather. These 2 cards have been moved to Monday & Tuesday of next week.