All Three Weekend Derby Preps Yield 'Horses of Interest'

Citizen Bull: Plenty to like but champion still lacks the ‘wow’ factor | Topics: Bob Baffert, Citizen Bull, Kentucky Derby, Burnham Square, Captain Cook, On the Kentucky Derby trail

Article by Ron Wood: Our US racing expert is off and running with a weekly update featuring all the news, views and analysis ahead of the first Saturday in May – starting with the return of the champion two-year-old

Kentucky Derby standings after 18 points preps

Citizen Bull secured a spot in the starting gate for Kentucky Derby 2025 and padded his lead in the points standings with Saturday's win in the Robert B. Lewis (G3) at Santa Anita. Kentucky Derby odds: 106 are in updated Las Vegas futures The 2024 2-year-old champion, trained by Bob Baffert, now has 60 points and is the only millionaire on the leaderboard. Speed King, winner of the Southwest (G3) on Jan. 25, is a distant second with 25 points.Th…

All Three Weekend Derby Preps Yield 'Horses of Interest'

The first Saturdays in February, March and April are stacked with points-awarding prep races for the GI Kentucky Derby. It's unusual, though, for all of the coast-to-coast stakes on any one of those weekends to yield three emphatic or impactful performances. But the trio of preps on Feb. 1 produced three intriguing winners who all figure to be “horses of interest” moving forward. The victories Saturday by Citizen Bull (Into Mischief) in the GIII…