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Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for March 12, 2025
Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for March 12, 2025
Brad FreeMar 12, 2025
Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for March 12, 2025
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We're coming to the third weekend in March, seven weeks before the 2025 Derby. Trainer Brad Cox has prospects, but none that would leave him bursting with confidence.
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Journalism, the highly rated winner of the San Felipe Stakes on March 1 at Santa Anita in his first start of 2025, has been tabbed as the 3-1 morning-line favorite for this weekend’s Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool, the fifth to be offered prior to this year’s Derby.
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As Virginia takes on a more active role on the Kentucky Derby trail, some of the state's historic programs still play a factor in racing today. A few examples have specific links to this year's Derby trail.
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Rebel winner Coal Battle emerged from a Wednesday breeze in good order and was scheduled to return to the track Saturday, said trainer Lonnie Briley.
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While some may be hoping to use Saturday's Grade 3, $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby as a stepping-stone to the May 3 Kentucky Derby, trainer Brian Lynch is using the 1 1/16-mile race to get Owen Almighty to a different event at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May.
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East Avenue came into the Breeders' Cup Juvenile the first weekend in November looking like the leading member of his generation. Coming into the second weekend of March, his generation less than two months away from their turn at the Kentucky Derby, East Avenue essentially has fallen off the radar.
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After riding at Santa Anita last Saturday, Flavien Prat will be on planes each weekend for the rest of the month. This Saturday in the Tampa Bay Derby, he is scheduled to ride Chancer McPatrick, who won the Grade 1 Hopeful and Grade 1 Champagne Stakes last year before finishing sixth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Del Mar on Nov. 1 in his last start.
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Gaming, who finished eighth in the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn in his 3-year-old debut, will make his next start in the $500,000 Virginia Derby on March 15 at Colonial Downs, trainer Bob Baffert said.
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Disappointed, but not discouraged, trainer Ian Wilkes said Burnham Square, fourth as the favorite in Saturday's Grade 2 Fountain of Youth, will continue down the Triple Crown trail and be pointed to the Grade 1, $1.25 million Blue Grass at Keeneland on April 5.