Saturday’s $500,000 Lane’s End Stakes at Turfway Park doesn’t feature any big-name Kentucky Derby contenders, but it’s still a major Kentucky Derby prep race (albeit a wide open one) and because it’s a grades stakes race it could give one horse a shot at the Run for the Roses in May. Halo Najib is the 7-2 morning-line favorite, with Cannonball the 9-2 second-choice for Saturday’s 1 1/8-mile race at Turfway Park.

“Whoever wins this race jumps right into the (Derby) picture — and none of them is in the top 20 now,” said track oddsmaker Mike Battaglia.

The Lane’s End has produced one Kentucky Derby winner, Lil E. Tee in 1992.

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