

If you are picking a horse on name alone, you can't get much better than Rocket Can in the 2023 Kentucky Derby. One of Cox's other horses, Verifying, starts to the right of Hit Show, and the two horses could team up to settle into the race on the inside and push for first in the final few lengths. Cox won the 2021 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. Hit Show could be worth a look solely because of its training staff. The inside group of horses may have a better chance of keeping the pace since Tapit Trice, one of three horses listed at 8-1 or lower, starts from post No. There will be no traffic to his left, and he can take the shortest way around Churchill Downs if he wants. Hit Show has drawn a potentially ideal post on the inside. The most recent result of the two should excite the team surrounding Hit Show because that was the more prestigious race. Hit Show took first in the Withers Stakes in February and followed that up with a second-place mark in the Wood Memorial in April. The Brad Cox-trained horse raced twice in 2023, but when he was on track, he was near, or at, the front of the pack. Hit Show has a limited resume compared to some of the other horses in the field.

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