11/18/2008 - East Rutherford, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Hambletonian champ Deweycheatumnhowe will take on 10 challengers in the Breeders Crown race for three-year-old male trotters on Saturday, November 29 at The Meadowlands.
Deweycheatumnhowe won two of the three Triple Crown events this year and will attempt to become just the third standardbred to win Breeders Crown finals as a two and three-year-old. The colt will be driven by trainer and co-owner Ray Schnittker.
Hambletonian winners Mack Lobell and Malabar Man are the only horses to win consecutive Breeders Crown championships as juveniles and sophomores.
Deweycheatumnhowe has won 21 of 23 races with earnings of just over $3 million. This year he has won 12 of 14 starts for $2,158,987.
The field of three-year-old trotters will be completed by Broadway Marquis, Celebrity Secret, Clerk Magistrate, Cloud Casino, Crazed, Holiday Credit, In Focus, John Paul's Legacy, Make It Happen, and Napoleon.
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MySportsbook.com and Kentucky Derby Offer Bonuses
The 2008 Kentucky Derby has announced a $1-million bonus for this weekend’s 134th ‘Run for the Roses’ and MySportsbook.com is doing the same.
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According to MySportsbook.com, the favorites for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky are: Curlin (+250); Street Sense (+500); Scat Daddy (+700); Circular Quay (+750); and Nobiz Like Shobiz (+800).
Derby organizers announced this week that there will be a $1-million bonus at the 2007 Kentucky Derby odds if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths – the margin of Barbaro's victory last year. The bonus would be divided Saturday among the winning trainer, jockey, owner and a charity, with each receiving 25 percent. The designated charity is the Barbaro Memorial Fund.
''It's certainly creative, it's certainly fun and it has something for the horsemen, which we always want to embrace,'' Churchill Downs president and chief executive Robert Evans said at a news conference. ''What's really cool is it will force us to remember Barbaro.''
Meanwhile, the Derby favorite – Curlin – is going against the odds this year. It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since Regret in 1915 has such a lightly seasoned horse worn the blanket of red roses.
Arkansas Derby winner Curlin – unbeaten in three career races – tries to overcome both those obstacles in Saturday's 133rd Derby.
''We're not running against history,'' trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. ''We're running against who they load up.''
Six other horses have run in the Derby without benefit of 2-year-old races and with three or fewer starts. The best any of them managed was a sixth-place finish by Showing Up last year.
Asmussen dismissed suggestions that Curlin's lack of racing experience could keep him from the winner's circle.
”He exudes confidence and he's got a great presence about him,'' the trainer said. ''I feel great about the position we're in. He's not worried about anything, why should you be?''
The Kentucky Derby is at 4:04 p.m., ET Saturday.
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