This function offers a capsule view of three horses that are not quite as mighty as before, on the Triple Crown Trail and three horses, whose opportunities for the 2025 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve.
In the second edition of this blog for the 2025 Run for the Roses, the focus is on the changing landscape of the 3-year male division after three major preparatory races on February 1.
Heat
1. Burnham Square
Sometimes an equipment can change the difference. Coach Ian Wilkes assembled Burnham Square Blinker Two starts back and the map of the Liam has been 2 against 2 since then, including a load-to-first win with 1 ¾ length in the $ 265,000 on February 1st in the Gulfstream Park. I will take Wilkes in his word that the indicators gave this 3-year-old a substantial boost, but he wasn't exactly bad before. He gathered in a Keeneland sprint in a Keeland sprint last October with half a long length in a Keeland sprint and then three quarters of a length in a 1/16 mile women-special weight race in Churchill Downs in November. The strides Burnham Square has striking in his last two starts when he received a career best 92-equibase speed and 86 Beyer Speed figure for his Maiden victory on December 28th at Gulfstream and then both in Holy Bull (in the saint Bullen (95 Beyer). moved along the inside of horses, navigated in the last round around the fading Pacesetter and then stepped onto the route again before he staggered in the Tappan Street. Then ended with a last furlong in a mighty one: 12.53.
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2. Captain Cook
I selected Burnham Square for the upper square, but I was able to present an equally convincing argument for Captain Cook … it was so close. You can probably pull a line through his career debut when he started a restless start in a Churchill Downs Sprint. Captain Cook was great in two starts since then. In a seven-furgonian race on a sloppy route on December 28th, he scored 9 ¼ length in the aqueduct and then shone when he stretched out on 1 1/8 miles to make his stakes debut in the $ 250,000 -to achieve inserts. He settled under Jockey Manny Franco in the Withers, while he was taking the pace of three wide in third place, and answered willingly when he was asked to accelerate.
The practical joke Colt withdrew and won with a last quarter mile in: 24.98 and one last eighth mile in: 12.61, impressive closing fractions at this distance for a 3-year early February. Trainer Rick Dutrow won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness with Huge Brown in 2008. Dutrow has another good in this stallion foal from the family, which in 2004 produced the Belmont Stakes winner Birdstone and the winner of the Kentucky Oaks winner from 2003 Vire Town. Captain Cook has both a class and a distance test in the Withers and the career best 97 Equibase Speed Figure and 94 Beyer Speed figure support his case as a stern derby horse.
3. Citizen Bull
I was seriously thinking about giving the last slot for the impressive winner River Thames, but how can you place the returning Champion 2-year-olds after a 3-active rod compared to highly respected stables Rodriguez in the $ 200,000 Robert B. Lewis refuse missions in Santa Anita Park? I like Rodriguez as a derby hope and Citizen Bull, who defeated him on the square in three months in three months and deserves a 107 equibase speed number and a 98 Beyer vibration, both modern benchmarks from the start to finish . Hall of fame coach Bob Baffert said that Citizen Bull was not completely cut for this race, which is a scary thought for the rest of the 3-year division. There is always a bit of uncertainty when a star has a 2-year time and returns by 3. If he was rather early than his colleagues last year, he will continue to improve, did others get him? In my opinion, Citizen Bull replied quite definitely that he is still the king until someone hits him from the throne.
Also justified: The 3-year-old I am most interested in seeing how he comes out last weekend in relation to the Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool River Thames. The Macleans Music Colt, trained by Todd Plletcher, followed a striking debut victory, which on January 11th in the Gulfstream Park with another outstanding victory on February 1 and moved significantly to a mile sprint and 6½ lengths on the finish line. He settled well on the inside of another horse in the admission race and put him away when he was asked. He deserved a 94 and a 92 Beyer speed figure for his two starts. … Gate for wire Made his first three starts in the grass and his fourth race was on the all -weather surface in the Gulfstream Park. Trainer Todd Plletcher changed the Munninging Colt for his fifth start to dirt and made a win of five lengths in the Swale Stakes in the best race of his career with a significant lead. The distance will be a question, but the 99 Equibase speed and the 93 Beyer speed figure, which he deserves for the Swal, are pointed out to a talented person. … I mentioned Rodriguez At the beginning of the capsule about Staffate Citizen Bull and I thought he had held up in his debut for the champion in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes. I liked Rodriguez as a derby hope before the race and didn't see him at all in the Lewis.
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Frosty
1. Weapons loaded
Guns Loaded was an almost Maiden winner in a sprint at Churchill Downs last November, but I was skeptical that on January 4th in his 3-year debut from a leisurely profit from Mucho Macho Man Stakes on January 4th. Visually and on paper, the Mucho Macho Man did not blow me away. The invited weapon was sent in Gulfstream with 5.80-1 profit opportunities in the $ 265,000 of February 1st and faded after he had set the pace through three quarters of a mile in 1: 11.69. They last landed seven and 33 ¼ lengths behind the winner Burnham Square. This weapon runner Colt would need an 180-degree gymnastics sound at his next start to get back on the track for the Kentucky Derby.
2. Wild
I am a fan wild and I still have great hopes for him as a 3-year-old in 2025, but his holy bull in fourth place qualifies as an unfavorable season debut. In the early phases of the race and in the last round, he had hunting on the right, but faded delayed and ended 11 ¾ lengths behind the winner. The hopeful stakes and Claiborne Breeder's 'Futurity-Zweiten-Beide races of the first class were probably a race for conditioning in his first start in three months since he took fourth place in the Fanduel Breeders' Cup Juvenile from Taa. But the 77 Equibase Speed Figure was the worst in its five career starts and I would have liked to see a little more fight in the deep route of the Holy Bull.
3. Mon quality
The runner-up in Smarty Jones Stakes was the 2.75-1 second-competition election in the $ 250,000 withes Stakes on February 1st. The MO quality pressed the pace in the race of 1 1 1/8 miles of second, but empty in the route and faded 16 ¼ lengths behind the winner Burnham Square in fourth place. The Withers was the first unplanned finish of the four-racial career of the Mo Town and the 73 equibase speed number was also the lowest of its four previous starts. These are animals that do not have machines and race horse progress are rarely linear, so MO guarantees the quality a second chance. But on the derby trail it is very hard to overcome a step backwards, even in early February.
