Two Horses Scratched Today in the Kentucky Derby - Practical Move and Lord Miles

 Trainer Tim Yakteen announced the scratch of Practical Move from the Kentucky Derby today, due to an elevated temperature.  The bay son of Practical Joke and Ack Naughty had drawn the number 10 post on Monday.  Yakteen still has a horse in the Derby, Reincarnate, who will wear saddle cloth number 7.  Practical Move had earned the second-highest amount of points to enter this year's Derby, with 160.  -  With Practical Move out of the Derby, Cyclone Mischief has drawn in.
Practical Move on 3 May - before scratch

  Also, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission decided that all horses trained by Saffie Joseph, Jr. would be scratched - this means that Lord Miles, who had earned 105 points for the Derby, was also scratched.  The bay son of Curlin and Lady Esme had drawn post position 19 on Monday.  Japan-bred Mandarin Hero (JPN) will fill in to make a field of 20.
   Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. had two of his horses, both owned by Kenneth Ramsey, die after races at Churchill Downs since opening day.  He stated that having two horses die was "mind boggling."  Parent's Pride, a 4-year-old filly, was pulled up in the stretch on opening night in race 8, on April 29th.  She collapsed on the track and died.  On Tuesday, May 2nd, Chasing Arties, a 5-year-old gelding, finished his race out of the money, after being bumped twice in the stretch.  He was vanned off the track, and later died under a veterinarian's care.  On March 15, Joseph was fined and blocked from racing in Pennsylvania, after his winning filly's urine tested positive for Gabapentin.  She was disqualified, and Joseph claims the sample was contaminated.
Lord Miles scratched from Derby by Kentucky Horse Racing Commission

   So, at the moment, there will still be 20 entries for the 2023 Kentucky Derby - saddlecloth number 11 will break out of the 10 gate, and numbers 12 through 18 will also move one gate over; then Continuar (JPN), with saddle cloth 20 will break out  of gate 18, and Cyclone Mischief out of gate 19, with Mandarin Hero (JPN) in gate 20.




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