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2023 Lexington Stakes Contenders at Keeneland

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Edited Keeneland Press Release
Updated: April 12, 2023

Lexington is the final race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby

Disarm (Winchell Thoroughbreds), runner-up in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby in his most recent start, will try to earn a spot in the 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1) starting gate when he heads a field of 11 3-year-olds in Saturday's 41st running of the $400,000 Stonestreet Lexington Stakes (G3) at Keeneland Racecourse.

The 1 1/16-mile test will go as the ninth race on Saturday's 11-race program with a 5:16 p.m. ET post time. First post Saturday is 1 p.m.

2023 Lexington Stakes Field & Odds

Race 9 at Keeneland on Saturday, April 15 - Post 5:16 PM

Entry Horse ML Odds Jockey Trainer
1 Baseline Beater 20-1 Corey Lanerie
118 Lbs
Neil Pessin
2 Reinvest 30-1 Joseph Talamo
118 Lbs
Timothy Hamm
3 Demolition Duke 6-1 Flavien Prat
118 Lbs
Brad Cox
4 Transect 30-1 Gerardo Corrales
118 Lbs
Paulo Lobo
5 First Mission 3-1 Luis Saez
118 Lbs
Brad Cox
6 Disarm 7-2 Jose Ortiz
118 Lbs
Steven Asmussen
7 Denington 20-1 Brian Hernandez, Jr.
118 Lbs
Kenneth McPeek
8 Empirestrikesfast 4-1 Lanfranco Dettori
118 Lbs
William Mott
9 Prairie Hawk 15-1 John Velazquez
118 Lbs
Saffie Joseph, Jr.
10 Curly Larry and Mo 50-1 Reylu Gutierrez
118 Lbs
Caio Caramori
11 Arabian Lion 7-2 Irad Ortiz, Jr.
118 Lbs
Bob Baffert

The Stonestreet Lexington is the final race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby and carries 40 points that will be awarded on a 20-8-6-4-2 basis to the first- through fifth-place finishers. The Derby is limited to the top 20 point earners and invitees that pass the entry box.

Trained by Steve Asmussen, Disarm has his 40 points from the Louisiana Derby. The current cut is 45 points.

Owning a record of 4-1-2-1, Disarm will be ridden Saturday by Jose Ortiz and exit post position six.

Also figuring to draw support is Zedan Racing Stables' Arabian Lion.

Arabian Lion, trained by Bob Baffert, will be making his first start since finishing fourth in the Robert B. Lewis (G3) at Santa Anita on Feb. 4. Runner-up in an allowance race here last fall on the Breeders' Cup undercard, Arabian Lion will be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. and leave from post position 11.

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