The most important three-year-old stakes race this Saturday for these on the Kentucky Derby path is the Grade 2 Risen Star. ; The $300,000 race drew a area of 11 with two coupled entries. ; The possible favourite eight and one-half furlong race is the Brereton C Jones-owned entry of Mr. Bowling and Mark Valeski. ; Each colts are coming off of wins, however the majority can be centered on Mr. Bowling, who’s coming off a head win within the Grade three LeComte, which is the native prep for the Risen Star. Mr. Bowling, second on the BetAmerica Kentucky Derby Prime 15, will once more face rivals Z Dager, Shared Property, Hero of Order, Ted’s Folly and Adena’s Likelihood, who all ran within the LeComte. ; Ted’s Folly and Adena’s Likelihood seem like overmatched based mostly on their ninth and tenth place end so let’s check out the others. ; Z Dager was a size and a half again on the stretch name, made an inside run and completed a head behind Mr. Bowling with one other half size to Shared Property, who made a large run to get into rivalry coming into the stretch, however couldn’t maintain his bid. Based mostly on the margins and the working strains one could say that Z Dager would appreciated the little little bit of added distance, however the race replay suggests in any other case. Z Dager was behind horses coming into the stretch then was capable of finding room late and wad making a menacing run on the chief. ; Mr. Bowling; nevertheless, was having none of it and was capable of preserve his opponent at bay even by the gallop out. ; Shared Property had the worst journey of the highest three, however once more drew an out of doors submit. Along with Mark Valeski, the runners within the Risen Star that didn’t come out of the LeComte are Afford, Optimizer, El Padrino and Tizanexpense. El Padrino might very effectively go off favored within the Risen Star off his smashing allowance win over Take Cost Indy at Gulfstream Park late final month. ; Take Cost Indy is a high prospect, who was coming off a fifth place end within the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in November. The one concern with the Todd Pletcher-trained colt by Pulpit is the allowance win was over an excellent, sealed Gulfstream Park monitor. ; The flexibility has all the time been there, however his two wins have come over an off-track. ; Because it stands proper now El Padrino is tenth on the BetAmerica Kentucky Derby Prime 15. Optimizer has but to ship on guarantees from his coach and has lots of enchancment to do to hit the board on Saturday. ; Afford and Tizanexpense are the bookends within the Risen Star and each come out of allowance wins at Honest Grounds. ; Tizanexpense is caught in submit eleven, however his come residence time in his final race was a wonderful 29 and one-fifth second. ; For comparability Mr. Bowling shed his ultimate fractions in 30 and two-fifths. ; Tizanexpense might hit the board at a pleasant value if capable of negotiate an excellent journey. The Saturday card at Honest Grounds is a superb one with 4 graded stakes races and 6 stakes total. ; The Risen Star is scheduled as race 11 with a submit time of 5:55 ET.