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2024 Derby City Distaff odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets for Saturday's race

SportsLine racing analyst Michelle Yu offers her picks, wagers and analysis for the Derby City Distaff at Churchill Downs

By@SportsLineUpdated: May 04, 2024 12:43AM UTC . 3 min read

Saturday is Kentucky Derby Day at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., and Race 6 will be the 2024 Derby City Distaff. Grade 1 winner Alva Starr has been installed as the 5-2 favorite in the Derby City Distaff odds. Her rival, Vahva, is the 3-1 second choice in the Derby City Distaff field. Post time for the $1 million race is 1:14 p.m. ET.

With the Derby City Distaff's large and wide-open field making for a head-scratching handicapping puzzle, you'll want to see what Santa Anita-based racing reporter and analyst Michelle Yu has to say before making any 2024 Derby City Distaff picks. Join SportsLine here to see whom she's picking!

Few people in racing are as well-connected as Yu. An on-air host and reporter who has provided racing analysis for TVG, HRTV and the Breeders' Cup, Yu has spent a lifetime in racing. Prior to her television career, she worked for trainers Steve Asmussen and Ron Moquett. She also is married to Santa Anita-based trainer Ryan Hanson.

Yu also has tremendous handicapping chops. In a wide-open Derby in 2021, she gave out Medina Spirit, who crossed the finish line first, as the winner at 12-1. In Pool 5 of the Derby Future Wager two years ago, she suggested a play on All Other 3-Year-Olds, which cashed at a whopping 18-1 when Rich Strike won.

She enters Saturday on a roll. She correctly called National Treasure to win the Pegasus World Cup. In the last month, she predicted Stronghold's upset win in the Santa Anita Derby en route to a $219.50 payday and smashed the exacta in the Apple Blossom Handicap as part of a $410 score. And less than 24 hours ago, she hit the exacta in the Kentucky Oaks.

For the 2024 Derby City Distaff, Yu has made her picks and constructed her bets. Join SportsLine here to see them!

One surprise: Yu is high on Red Carpet Ready, even though she is 9-2. "She loves this track and is a perfect 3-for-3 at Churchill, so I will include her," Yu told SportsLine.

Moreover, Yu is high on a big double-digit longshot on Saturday. This longshot has a trainer who "knows what he's doing." She is including this horse in her 2024 Derby City Distaff bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see her picks before locking in any of your own.

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