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Kentucky Derby, prep, heating up, cooling down, horse racing, Burnham Square, Holy Bull Stakes, Captain Cook, Withers, Citizen Bull, Robert B. Lewis, River Thames, Gulfstream Park, Rodriguez, Mo Quality, Guns Loaded, Ferocious, Gate to Wire, Swale Stakes

2025 Kentucky Derby Trail: Three Heating Up, Three Cooling Down for Feb. 4

This feature provides a capsule look at three horses who are heating up on the Triple Crown trail and three horses whose chances for the 2025 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve are not quite as strong as they previously were.

In the second edition of this blog for the 2025 run for the roses, the focus is on the changing landscape of the 3-year-old male division after three major prep races on Feb. 1.

Kentucky Derby, prep, prospect, Captain Cook, Withers Stakes, Aqueduct, St. Elias Stable, Rick Dutrow, Manny Franco, breeding, pedigree, Practical Joke, auction, Thoroughbred, horse racing, Marylou Whitney, Birdstone

2025 Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles: Withers Stakes Winner Captain Cook

Welcome to Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles, where we take a look each week at a recent winner on the Road to the Derby schedule that distributes qualifying points for the 1 ¼-mile classic race May 3, 2025, at Churchill Downs.

Black History Month: Shining a Spotlight on Notable African-American Jockeys

From the beginnings of the sport in the United States, people of color have made significant contributions to horse racing. African-American jockeys dominated the winner’s circle in racing’s first three decades. They were the first Black superstar athletes in the United States, and won 16 of the first 28 runnings of the Kentucky Derby. In fact, 13 of 15 jockeys for the inaugural Kentucky Derby in 1875 were Black.

Kentucky Derby, Robert B. Lewis, Citizen Bull, Bob Baffert, Martin Garcia, Captain Cook, Withers, Aqueduct, Santa Anita, Manny Franco, Rick Dutrow, Burnham Square, Ian Wilkes, Gulfstream, Holy Bull, Kopion, Richard Mandella, Tenma, Edgard Zayas

Five Takeaways From Busy Weekend on Kentucky Derby Trail, Including the Champ’s Return

America’s Best Racing’s Mike Curry offers five key takeaways from a busy weekend on the path to Louisville for the 2025 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve with three races Feb. 1 that awarded the top five finishers Kentucky Derby qualifying points on a 20-10-6-4-2 basis.

Santa Anita, Citizen Bull, Robert B. Lewis Stakes, Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby

Citizen Bull is Easy Winner in Successful 3-Year-Old Debut at Santa Anita

The champ is back.

Citizen Bull, the Eclipse Award-winning juvenile male of last year returned just as racegoers remembered seeing him through the fall of 2024 when he won the Grade 3 $200,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes in his 3-year-old debut on Feb. 1 at Santa Anita.

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