Backtalk 2010 Kentucky Derby Odds: Gold Mark Farm’s Backtalk is very hopeful that he’ll be in the running for the 2010 Kentucky Derby. Will the cards fall in the colt’s favor to make an appearance in the Run for the Roses? Go to BODOG.com to get all of the current betting odds on all of your Kentucky Derby favorites.
Backtalk who’s coming in at 50 to 1 odds made his 2010 start in a good way with a 1st place win in the Sportsman’s Paradise Stakes out of the Delta Downs in Louisiana. His last race resulted in a 3rd place finish in the Illinois Derby-G3 out of Hawthorne Race Course both races with jockey M Mena. However, his total graded stakes earning for 2009 and 2010 has gotten him $225,916, which falls just short of placing in the top 20 graded stakes earners. So does this mean Backtalk is out?
"He has been on schedule all along," said Todd Quast, racing manager for Gold Mark. "The only miss was the 1:09 and 3 (six-furlong) work before the Illinois Derby. It is just hard to believe that $225,000 may not get us in."
With great pedigree running through his blood, Backtalk has a lot to live up to with his dad getting through 2003 & 2004 with all but one 1st place finishes. Smarty Jones had his own success in the Triple Crown when he finished 1st in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness-G1 and then finished 2nd in the last leg at the Belmont Stakes-G1. With the bloodlines not stopping there, Backtalk’s grandfather on his mom’s side, Affirmed had nothing but 1st place finishes between 1978 & 1979 with three of those being in the 1978 Triple Crown. But sitting at 22nd on the graded earnings, will Backtalk even get the chance at all three races? Trainer Tom Amoss is being very positive on the situation.
"It was an easy five-eighths, which is what we wanted," Tom Amoss said of the move, the colt's first since a third-place finish in the April 3 Illinois Derby (G3). "Everything has been fine with him since the Illinois Derby, no problems at all. He will work again next Sunday — something a little more spirited at that time."
Online racebook BODOG.com has posted horse racing betting odds to win the 2010 Kentucky Derby:
A LITTLE WARM: 50/1
ALPHIE'S BET: 100/1
AMERICAN LION 18/1
AWESOME ACT 12/1
BACKTALK 50/1
CALL SHOT 150/1
CARACORTADO 50/1
CONNEMARA 75/1
CONVEYANCE 25/1
DEAN'S KITTEN 40/1
DISCREETLY MINE 50/1
DISTORTED DAVE 100/1
DROSSELMEYER 60/1
DUBLIN 10/1
EIGHTYFIVEINAFIFTY 50/1
ESKENDEREYA 2/1
FIRST DUDE 150/1
GAME ON DUDE 85/1
HOMEBOYKRIS 60/1
ICE BOX 15/1
INTERACTIF 40/1
JACKSON BEND 20/1
KETTLE RIVER 150/1
LINE OF DAVID 30/1
LOOKIN AT LUCKY 13/4
MAKE MUSIC FOR ME 40/1
MENDIP 40/1
MISSION IMPAZIBLE 30/1
NOBLE'S PROMISE 15/1
NORTHERN GIANT 100/1
PADDY O'PRADO 25/1
PLEASANT PRINCE 50/1
PRINCE WILL I AM 200/1
RULE 20/1
SETSUKO 25/1
SIDNEY'S CANDY 6/1
STATELY VICTOR 40/1
SUPER SAVER 15/1
TEMPTED TO TAPIT 75/1
UPTOWNCHARLYBROWN 75/1
YAWANNA TWIST 75/1
