Kentucky Derby News

Gold Square, LLC, George Messina, and Michael Lee’s Cyclone State earned 10 points on the 2025 Road to the Kentucky Derby following his facile, 3 1/2-length score in the Jerome S. at Aqueduct on Jan. 4.

Entering the year atop the domestic leaderboard, Citizen Bull is just one of a veritable phalanx of hopefuls by the great patriarch Into Mischief.

Reddam Racing’s Look Forward gamely staved off the late rally of Artisma in Sunday’s $101,500 Santa Ynez S. on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks.

Remington Springboard Mile hero Coal Battle added a second victory on the Road to the Kentucky Derby in Saturday’s $250,000 Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn Park.

Cyclone State showed speed from the start and joined the Kentucky Derby trail with a dominant win in the Jerome S. at Aqueduct, picking up 10 points in his stakes debut.

Starlet (G2) runner-up Look Forward will take on a trio of Bob Baffert fillies in Sunday’s $100,000 Santa Ynez S. at Santa Anita.

A cast of eight newly turned three-year-olds will travel 1 1/16 miles on the Oaklawn Park dirt in Saturday’s $250,000 Smarty Jones S.

The third of six Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifiers taking place at Aqueduct is Saturday’s $150,000 Jerome S.

The $250,000 Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn Park isn’t a graded stakes, but it’s nevertheless a highly productive Road to the Kentucky Derby qualifier.

Eight newly-turned three-year-olds will contest Saturday’s $150,000 Jerome S. at Aqueduct, the first Kentucky Derby (G1) points race of 2025.