Expert picks

Muhimma jumped onto the Road to the Kentucky Oaks with a wire-to-wire victory in Saturday’s Demoiselle (G2), and Tenma prevailed in the Starlet (G2).

For the second time in a week, Godolphin and trainer Eoin Harty have won a 2025 Road to the Kentucky Derby series prep with a colt going turf-to-dirt.

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) runner-up Vodka with a Twist will try to end her run of seconditis in Saturday’s $200,000 Starlet (G2) at Los Alamitos.

A total of 21 qualifying points on 2025 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series are on the line in Saturday’s $250,000 Remsen S. (G2) at Aqueduct.

Godolphin homebred First Resort picked up 10 points on the 2025 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series following his 2 1/4-length tally in the $381,250 Kentucky Jockey Club S. (G2) at Churchill Downs on November 30.

The Remsen (G2) has produced a Kentucky Derby (G1) top-four finisher in seven of the last 14 years, including 2024 runner-up Sierra Leone.

The seven two-year-old colts entered in the $250,000 Remsen (G2) at Aqueduct on Saturday have some big shoes to fill.

First Resort comfortably won Saturday’s 98th running of the Kentucky Jockey Club (Grade II) at Churchill Downs by 2 1/4 lengths over 4-5 favorite Jonathan’s Way.

Godolphin’s promising homebred 2-year-old filly Good Cheer remained unbeaten in four starts in Saturday’s 81st running of the Golden Rod (Grade II) at Churchill Downs

A strong field of 10 will travel 1 1/8 miles on the Churchill Downs dirt in Friday’s $600,000 Clark S. (G2).