Saturday’s Stonestreet Lexington (G3), the final race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, offers a path to Churchill Downs for the first Saturday in May for D. J. Stable and Robert Cotran’s HADES (Awesome Slew) who was beaten 19 lengths just two weeks ago in the Florida Derby (G1).
The $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) Presented by Woodford Reserve is limited to the top 20 point earners and invitees from the series of races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby that began in September.
Trained by Joe Orseno, Hades sits in 24th place on the leaderboard with 30 points. The Stonestreet Lexington offers 42 points on a 20-10-6-4-2 scale for the first- through fifth-place finishers.