Louisville, KY (Sports Network) - Bodemeister, the Arkansas Derby winner, is the 4-1 morning line favorite for Saturdays 138th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. The $2 million 1 1/4 mile race for three-year-olds is the first leg of racings Triple Crown. This years Run for the Roses will have a full field of 20 break from the starting gate with post-time at 6:24 p.m. (et). No scratches were reported by Friday at 9 a.m. (et) leaving the also-eligible My Adonis out of the field and headed back to Baltimore. The winner of the Kentucky Derby will have the chance to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978, a drought approaching 34 years. The second jewel of the Triple Crown is the Preakness Stakes on May 19 followed by the Belmont Stakes on June 9. Trained by Bob Baffert, Bodemeister will be ridden by Mike Smith from post six. Smith won the 2005 Kentucky Derby aboard Giacomo while Baffert won the race with Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998) and War Emblem (2002). Owned by Zayat Stables, Bodemeister blew through the Arkansas Derby to win by 9 1/2 lengths. Earlier this year he was second to Creative Cause in the San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita. The colt has lifetime earnings of $704,800. "I think its a very competitive Derby," the Hall of Fame trainer said. "You watch them all train and they all look great out there. This is one of the toughest Derbys Ive been in probably the last 10 years. Its a really competitive field." Baffert also has Arnold Zetchers Liaison in the Run for the Roses. The colt will be ridden by Martin Garcia from the far outside post and is 50-1 in the program. Garcia will be seeking his first Derby win. "When he drew the 20, I got a little bit disappointed, but hes the kind of horse that its better than if he would have gotten the one or the two or the three," Baffert noted. "He doesnt like a lot of dirt kicked in his face, which is why he ran so well on synthetics. "It looks like hes going to run a big race, but its whether hes good enough. The way hes training, I think hes going to be competitive. Thats all you can ask for." Liaison is coming off a sixth-place finish in the Santa Anita Derby and was fourth in the San Felipe Stakes. The colt has three wins in seven career starts for $487,560. The 9-2 second pick is highly regarded Union Rags, owned by Chadds Ford Stable and trained by Michael Matz. The colt will start from post four with Julien Leparoux aboard who has never won the Run for the Roses. Matz won the 2006 Derby with Barbaro before the colt suffered a career ending injury in the Preakness Stakes. "Barbaro was undefeated. Union Rags has lost two races by a total of a length and a half. Theyre both big, good-looking, fast and athletic," Matz said. "(Union Rags) still has to live up to what Barbaro did. Well find out Saturday." Union Rags began 2012 with a four length win in the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park, but was only third as the 2-5 favorite in the Florida Derby. The colt, second in the 2011 Breeders Cup Juvenile, has won four of six career starts for $1,198,000. 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Weve got to do better over there, because playing like this, we dont have a chance." San Antonios championship pedigree is about to really be tested. As good as Golden State looked in San Antonio, it has been far better at home all season, especially in the playoffs. The Warriors went 3-0 at home in the first round against Denver, with Curry seemingly controlling the standing-room only crowds on his fingertips -- and feeding off fans as well. The Spurs were 0-2 at Golden State tthis season, though San Antonio rested most of its starters in one of them.dddddddddddd The next game at Oracle Arena -- a raucous venue even when the Warriors were terrible -- might be the franchises biggest game in Oakland since 1991, when Golden State returned home with its second-round series against the Lakers tied at a game apiece -- only to lose three straight and be eliminated in Game 5 in Los Angeles. In the playoffs for only the second time in 19 years, excitement in the basketball-starved Bay Area is at a fever pitch. The Warriors can unite fans with conflicting allegiances in a way almost no other team can in the sports saturated market. Buses in San Francisco and Oakland have electronic banners that read: "Go Warriors." San Franciscos iconic Coit Tower has been lit with blue-and-gold lights, and fans on both sides of the bay can be seen wearing those yellow "We Are Warriors" shirts given out at home playoff games. With a sea of support behind them, all the Warriors need to do is win their home games to advance to the conference finals for the first time since the 1975-76 season. "The skys the limit for us right now," said Thompson, who had a career-high 34 points and 14 rebounds in Golden States 100-91 win Wednesday night, even joking at practice that he "felt like Steph Curry out there" shooting 8 of 9 from 3-point range. "Our confidence is at an all-time high," Thompson added. "Weve shown we can beat this team, and we just have to stay humble about it and keep working hard because its a long series." Golden State already has overcome two major hurdles. The Warriors rebounded from what could have been a devastating Game 1 collapse. And they "exercised the demons," as Curry put it, by winning in San Antonio for the first time since Feb. 14, 1997 -- four months before the Spurs drafted Tim Duncan out of Wake Forest and began a run that includes four NBA titles. Even Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, a two-time NBA Coach of the Year, has marveled at what his veteran-laden team is up against. During one television timeout captured on the TNT broadcast in Game 2, he told his team in the huddle: "They got skill. They got talent. Weve got to be on them." "They shot the heck out of it," Popovich said at the airport before his Spurs boarded a flight to the Bay Area on Thursday. "Thats the difference." ' ' '