One of the premier Kentucky Derby preps each year is the $425,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream Park.

The 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old Thoroughbreds has produced the likes of Kentucky Derby winners Orb, Thunder Gulch, Spectacular Bid, Tim Tam, Kauai King, and, most recently, Sovereignty, as well as top overall runners Forty Niner and Union Rags. The race has also produced many top stallions, such as Scat Daddy, sire of Triple Crown winner Justify, and Quality Road, who has sired some of the best runners of the last decade. Proud Truth won the race in 1985 and took the Breeders’ Cup Classic later that year. Code of Honor, who won the race in 2019, went on to career earnings of over $2.9 million.

Inaugurated in 1945, the Fountain of Youth continues to draw competitive fields each year as one of Florida's stepping-stones to the Kentucky Derby.  The race is the middle leg of a series that starts with the Holy Bull Stakes and concludes with the Florida Derby, worth $1 million.

This year's Fountain of Youth undercard includes eight additional stakes races, topped by a prep for the Kentucky Oaks, the $225,000, Grade 2 Davona Dale Stakes. Fountain of Youth Day is one of the best betting cards of the Gulfstream winter meet.