The 2021 Kentucky Derby will be just 6 weeks from this Saturday. As the Louisiana Derby looms this weekend, races like the Florida Derby, Santa Anita Derby, Wood Memorial, Blue Grass and Arkansas Derby await in coming Saturdays. Our resident historians and handicappers with 1/ST BET and Xpressbet check in with their mid-March Top 10 contenders for the Run for the Roses. We’ve included the projected next start for each horse in parenthesis. Next starts obviously are subject to change.


JEFF SIEGEL | @jsiegelracing

#1 Life Is Good (Santa Anita Derby)
#2 Essential Quality (Blue Grass)
#3 Greatest Honour (Florida Derby)
#4 Concert Tour (Arkansas Derby)
#5 Mandaloun (Louisiana Derby)
#6 Medina Spirit (Santa Anita Derby)
#7 Hot Rod Charlie (Louisiana Derby)
#8 Risk Taking (Wood Memorial)
#9 Collaborate (Florida Derby)
#10 Prevalence (Wood, Blue Grass or Arkansas Derby)


JON WHITE | @PostTimeJon

#1 Life Is Good (Santa Anita Derby)
#2 Essential Quality (Blue Grass)
#3 Concert Tour (Arkansas Derby)
#4 Greatest Honour (Florida Derby)
#5 Mandaloun (Louisiana Derby)
#6 Medina Spirit (Santa Anita Derby)
#7 Hot Rod Charlie (Louisiana Derby)
#8 Spielberg (Arkansas Derby)
#9 Keepmeinmind (Arkansas Derby)
#10 Proxy (Louisiana Derby)


JOHN 'JOHNNY D' DESANTIS | @XBJohnnyD

#1 Concert Tour (Arkansas Derby)
#2 Essential Quality (Blue Grass)
#3 Greatest Honour (Florida Derby)
#4 Mandaloun (Louisiana Derby)
#5 Life Is Good (Santa Anita Derby)
#6 Medina Spirit (Santa Anita Derby)
#7 Caddo River (Arkansas Derby)
#8 Highly Motivated (Wood Memorial)
#9 Dream Shake (Santa Anita Derby)
#10 Weyburn (Wood Memorial)


JEREMY PLONK | @HorsePlayerNow

#1 Life Is Good (Santa Anita Derby)
#2 Concert Tour (Arkansas Derby)
#3 Essential Quality (Blue Grass)
#4 Greatest Honour (Florida Derby)
#5 Proxy (Louisiana Derby)
#6 Mandaloun (Louisiana Derby)
#7 Medina Spirit (Santa Anita Derby)
#8 Midnight Bourbon (Louisiana Derby)
#9 Prevalence (Wood, Blue Grass or Arkansas Derby)
#10 Big Lake (Arkansas Derby)