The Kentucky Derby prep races season just underwent a seismic shift after a high-stakes 100-point weekend that redefined the leaderboard. While early-season favorites dominated the headlines for months, two new powerhouses now sit atop the throne. Brad Cox’s Fulleffort and Chad Brown’s Emerging ...
The Road to the 2025 Kentucky Oaks (G1) wends its way to Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday for the $150,000 Suncoast Stakes, where La Cara is ready to rejoin that journey. The winner of the Suncoast for 3-year-old fillies earns 20 Oaks qualifying points. Now that we’re in February, harvesting points is ...
The preps of February continue this weekend, with the Sam F. Davis Stakes on Saturday kicking off Tampa Bay Downs’ road to the Kentucky Derby (G1). A field of 10 is entered for the 1 1/16-mile race, which offers Derby qualifying points of 20-10-6-4-2 to the first five finishers on a sliding scal...
The early Triple Crown nominations are out, and owners of 373 3-year-olds ponied up $600 to set out on a goal all horsemen covet: Victory in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, or Belmont Stakes. Or, all three. Citizen Bull, the 2-year-old champion who won the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) in his 3-...
Four largely untested sophomore fillies take on dual graded stakes winner Tenma on Sunday in the $100,000 Las Virgenes (G3), the first of Santa Anita Park’s preps for the 2025 Kentucky Oaks (G1) in May. Short but Talented field set for the Las Virgenes The one-mile race serves as a spring...
Anxious at the start, Citizen Bull quickly regrouped, took the lead, and never wavered in his 3-year-old debut, winning the $200,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) by 3 ¾ lengths at Santa Anita on Saturday and heating his road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby. Sent off as the 4-5 favorite in a small field o...
Rick Dutrow, Jr., figures now is the time to see whether Captain Cook is ready to move onto the road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby (G1). After winning over a sloppy, sealed track by 9 ¼ lengths in his second start, Captain Cook is the slight 5-2 favorite for Saturday’s $200,000 Withers Stakes (G3...
When you have the most horses in the field, and they are the favorites, and they are usually expensive and well-bred, you usually win. Two-year-old champion Citizen Bull favored in three-year-old debut Such is the case with Bob Baffert. On Saturday, the Hall of Fame trainer seeks his seventh straig...
Trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. got more than he bargained for when Rojo Rita debuted in mid-November. While Joseph was hoping for a good result, he never imagined the filly would romp to a 16 ¼ -length victory. That’s the stuff dreams are made of. Maiden winner is the morning line favorite in th...
Ferocious is a terrific name for a racehorse, striking fear in the hearts of rivals. It is also the name of the 9-5 favorite in the $265,000 Holy Bull Stakes (G3) on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. The Holy Bull is the most important of the five Gulfstream stakes that afternoon for 3-year-olds. The win...
The pace picks up on the road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby (G1) Saturday, with point-qualifying preps in California, Florida, and New York. All three Grade 3 races-- the Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita, the Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park, and the Withers Stakes at Aqueduct offer 20-...
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