Sports

Frac Daddy set for Derby

BILLINGS, Mont. — A 3-year-old gray colt owned by two Billings men has qualified to compete in the 139th Kentucky Derby on May 4.

The horse is owned by Carter Stewart and Ken Schlenker. Stewart is a petroleum geologist and Schlenker is an independent petroleum land man, which would explain why the horse is named Frac Daddy.

Some early lines have Frac Daddy at 45-1 odds of winning the mile-and-a-quarter race. But Stewart says Frac Daddy loves the track at Churchill Downs and has had his best races there.

Frac Daddy’s father, Scat Daddy, finished 18th in the 2007 Kentucky Derby.