Kentucky Derby 2027 futures: Hughes, U. S. S. Valor lead – Horse Racing Nation

Hughes shortened from 11-1 to 10-1 as the Kentucky Derby 2027 favorite at Caesars Sportsbook going into Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. The first pari-mutuel line of the season sees the top of the market differently.Churchill Downs released its morning line Monday for pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager and made U. S. S. Valor the top individual choice at 8-1. The Grade 1 Champagne winner for trainer Shug McGaughey will skip the Breeders’ Cup to point toward his 3-year-old season. Caesars also cut the War of Will colt this week, from 28-1 to 18-1, but kept him second on its board.Hughes is also 10-1 in pool 1. The Bob Baffert-trained son of Into Mischief is 4-for-4 with victories in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and American Pharoah (G1), and he will try to stay unbeaten when the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile goes off at 4:55 p.m. EDT Friday at Keeneland.He will not lack for futures company. All eight starters in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile carry individual prices at Caesars and in pool 1. American History, the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) winner for Todd Pletcher, shortened from 28-1 to 25-1 at Caesars and is 20-1 in pool 1. Salahudin, Baffert’s other starter and 3-for-3 after winning the Iroquois (G3), moved from 40-1 to 35-1. Gaudreau, the Champagne runner-up for Chad Brown, went from 80-1 to 50-1. Coach Pope held at 25-1 at Caesars, but Churchill Downs made the Kenny McPeek-trained Tapit colt its 15-1 third individual choice. Damavand and He Is No Lie are 80-1 at Caesars, and Earth Song sits at 125-1, more than twice his 60-1 morning line in pool 1.Pool 1 opens Wednesday at noon EDT and closes Friday at about 4 p.m. EDT, so bettors will have to commit before the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runs. It offers 40 betting interests: 38 horses, a 99-1 option on all fillies and a field of all other colts and geldings, which carries a 6-5 morning line as the overall favorite.Caesars stands well shorter than pool 1 on three horses who did not race this week. It has The Good Life, the unbeaten Hopeful (G1) winner for Brad Cox who also will miss the Breeders’ Cup, at 22-1 against 50-1 in pool 1. Nevada got the steepest cut at Caesars among horses who did not run, from 80-1 to 35-1, and is 80-1 in pool 1. The Uncle Mo colt won his Oct. 16 debut at a mile at Belmont Park, and Brown has him pointed to the Remsen (G2) on Dec. 5. Zedan, an unraced Flightline colt in Baffert’s barn, went from 50-1 to 33-1 at Caesars and is 75-1 in pool 1.Jas made the biggest jump on the board. The Steve Asmussen-trained Justify colt won the Street Sense (G3) on Sunday at Churchill Downs in his first start on dirt, and Caesars cut him from 150-1 to 60-1. He is 40-1 in pool 1.Three others from that race joined the Caesars board. Runner-up Staunch, a Liam’s Map colt for Brendan Walsh, opened at 50-1 and is 60-1 in pool 1. Third-place Mystik Bayou, a half brother to 2024 Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan for McPeek, opened at 75-1 at Caesars, matching his pool 1 price. Card Man, a Life Is Good colt from Brown’s barn, set the pace and faded to fifth as the favorite, and he opened at 100-1. Blessed Flyer, fourth in his first two-turn race, held at 80-1.Saturday’s Bowman Mill at Keeneland also fed the board. Just For Pipa, another son of Justify, stayed unbeaten in the six-furlong stakes for Greg Foley and opened at 60-1 at Caesars and 80-1 in pool 1. Conviction, the Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Tiz the Law colt who finished second, opened at 80-1 at Caesars, matching his pool 1 price. Booked, third as the favorite for Asmussen, drifted from 50-1 to 75-1, the lone horse to lengthen at Caesars this week.Just For Pipa’s Bowman Mill win gave Justify a fifth horse on the Caesars board, the most of any sire. Flightline and Uncle Mo follow with four each. Into Mischief has one Caesars entry in Hughes. Pool 1 adds two more sons of Into Mischief, both trained by Cox, after each won Sunday at Churchill Downs. Lord Mischief, a debut winner, is 75-1, and Fools Rush In, who broke his maiden in his second start, is 80-1. Neither has a Caesars price yet.Baffert leads all trainers with six horses at Caesars. Pletcher, Brown and Asmussen have four apiece, and McPeek and Doug O’Neill each have three.Caesars added six horses in all, the sixth being Ala Sawab at 75-1. The John Sadler-trained Flightline colt has not raced since failing to finish his Aug. 29 debut at Del Mar. No horse came off the board, which now lists 59. Pool 1 includes 10 horses Caesars has not posted, among them Lord Mischief, Fools Rush In and 80-1 Endrush.Five more futures horses run Friday in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. Liam’s Law, 60-1 at Caesars for Pletcher, drew into the field Monday after Al Hudaiba came out. How’s Al Today and Oscar are 75-1, Agate is 100-1 and Let Em Know is 150-1. Popcorn, also 150-1, is the lone also-eligible. Good To Be King, at 40-1, runs earlier Friday in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, where Wood Island, 75-1, is an also-eligible. Net Par, 100-1 at Caesars, withdrew from the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile after pre-entering.The futures at Caesars Sportsbook, which also operates William Hill outlets in Nevada, are available in person or on an app. They also may be played from out of state through a licensed proxy.These were the Kentucky Derby 2027 futures odds showing Tuesday morning at Caesars, with the pool 1 morning line for comparison: Horse Caesars CD Futures Pool 1 Agate 100-1 – Ala Sawab 75-1 – American History 25-1 20-1 Arctic Wolf 150-1 – Blessed Flyer 80-1 – Bletchley 150-1 – Bold Leadership 100-1 – Booked 75-1 – Canada 150-1 – Card Man 100-1 99-1 Caribbean Life 150-1 99-1 Club Reign 80-1 99-1 Coach Pope 25-1 15-1 Coast Highway 150-1 – Conviction 80-1 80-1 Damavand 80-1 75-1 Dang Son 150-1 – Dargham – 99-1 Domus 150-1 – Earth Song 125-1 60-1 Endrush – 80-1 Fleetfoot Mac – 99-1 Fools Rush In – 80-1 Gaudreau 50-1 40-1 Good To Be King 40-1 – He Is No Lie 80-1 60-1 Highwaymen – 99-1 How’s Al Today 75-1 99-1 Hughes 10-1 10-1 Imperial Honor 150-1 80-1 Inshallah 50-1 75-1 Jaded 150-1 – Jas 60-1 40-1 Just For Pipa 60-1 80-1 Just Joe 150-1 – Let Em Know 150-1 – Liam’s Law 60-1 – Lord Mischief – 75-1 Majik Mooney 150-1 – Maxify 150-1 – Merlin Monroan 150-1 – Mid American 40-1 – Midnight Still 150-1 – Mystik Bayou 75-1 75-1 Mystrix 150-1 – Net Par 100-1 75-1 Nevada 35-1 80-1 Observed 75-1 – Odenkirk – 99-1 Oscar 75-1 – Pharocity 80-1 99-1 Phone Booth 75-1 – Popcorn 150-1 – Powerline 60-1 99-1 Q B Rocket 60-1 50-1 Regent’s Park 150-1 – Salahudin 35-1 25-1 Showa – 99-1 Social Deception – 99-1 Staunch 50-1 60-1 Sum Of Success 80-1 – Tap Our Way – 99-1 The Good Life 22-1 50-1 Title Worthy 80-1 – Twinkle Town 33-1 50-1 U.S.S. Valor 18-1 8-1 Wood Island 75-1 – Zedan 33-1 75-1 Zero Fear 80-1 – All Other Colts and Geldings – 6-5 All Fillies – 99-1   Green = Caesars odds shortened from Oct 21 opening  Red = Caesars odds drifted from Oct 21 openingCD Futures Pool 1 = Churchill Downs Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool 1 morning line source