Steven Asmussen trained Daddy Nose Best and Sabercat worked ahead of the Kentucky Derby
After being confirmed for the Grade 1, $2 million Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on 5 May, 2012, the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Derby winner, Daddy Nose Best worked with another Kentucky Derby bound 3-year-old colt, Sabercat over the Churchill Downs fast
dirt track.
Both Kentucky Derby contenders are trained by veteran trainer Steven Asmussen, and on 23 April, 2012, they both turned in solid works.
Cathy and Robert Zollar Stables owned Kentucky bred son of Scat Daddy, Daddy Nose Best was out on the field first with the stakes placed, Z Dager and turned in six furlongs in 1 minute and 14 seconds flat.
Out of mare Follow Your Bliss by Thunder Gulch, Daddy Nose Best’s time for the six furlongs was broke down into fractions, as he turned 13 seconds and 25 2/5 seconds for the first quarter mile, 37 3/5 seconds and 50 seconds for the half mile marker, and
after all that finished one length ahead of Z Dager, while coming home in his final eighth in 12 1/5 seconds.
Daddy Nose Best wasn’t done there as he galloped out seven furlongs in 1 minute and 27 1/5 seconds.
Not that successful in his juvenile season, Daddy Nose Best turned it on in his sophomore season, and he is up till now undefeated in two starts, with a win in the Grade 3 El Camino Real Derby at about 1 1/8 miles at Golden Gate Fields and a massive win
in the Grade 3 Sunland Derby also at 1 1/8 miles.
Winchell Thoroughbreds owned, Sabercat, on the other hand secured his spot in the Kentucky Derby as a juvenile with a win in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot last year, and then he turned in a third place finish in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby recently.
The Bluegrass Cat colt worked five furlongs in company with Major Hope, and covered the distance in 1 minute and 2 4/5 seconds.
His work was also broke down in fractions as he took 26 seconds to down the quarter mile and 50 3/5 seconds to complete the half mile marker.
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