Article: Dance Floor Is Fla. Derby Pick; Land Running Favored Here

"Comparing the Hammer stable to my stable," Berkley Kern said, "is like comparing a guy wearing a gold suit to a guy sleeping in an alley with a tin cup and dark glasses. I'm the guy with the glasses."

Today, rap star Hammer and the down-home horse trainer will be viewed similarly at Laurel and Pimlico, at least in the company of their horses. Hammer's family-run Oaktown Stable will cut loose well-favored Dance Floor in the $500,000 Florida Derby - the Kentucky Derby sampler to be simulcast to the Maryland tracks - and Kern will saddle Land Running for the Genuine Risk Stakes, taking aim at a second straight $30,000 score.

Dance Floor shot toward the front of the 3-year-old class with a ...

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