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     Daddy Nose Best
    DADDY NOSE BEST
    Owner: Cathy and Bob Zollars
    Trainer: Steve Asmussen
    Jockey: Corey Nakatani

    Morning Line Odds: 4-1

    Arrived via flight from New York on Monday, he completes the pair out of the barn of trainer Steve Asmussen for the derby

    The leading trainer at Remington Park this season, Asmussen has never won the Oklahoma Derby, one of the few stakes races locally from which he has not taken home a trophy

    Daddy Nose Best won the Grade 3, $200,000 El Camino Real Derby in February followed by the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Park Derby in March. The colt by Scat Daddy from the Thunder Gulch mare Follow Your Bliss then finished 10th of 20 in the Kentucky Derby and was ninth of 11 in the Preakness Stakes before taking time off… In August, Daddy Nose Best was third in the Grade 2 $200,000 Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga

    A winner of four of 14 career starts with two second-place finishes and a pair of thirds, Daddy Nose Best has earned $665,263

    He is owned by Cathy and Bob Zollars of Dallas who seek their first Derby win

    Jockey Corey Nakatani will have the mount on Daddy Nose Best for the first time

    Daddy Nose Best is the only runner in the field who has won over turf, with half of his four career triumphs on lawn.