Desvio

Desvio needed three starts to earn his first career victory, winning a one-mile dirt race by nine lengths Feb. 11, 2024, in his 3-year-old debut. After two subsequent unplaced finishes on the main track, Desvio was switched to the turf and closed from off the pace to win by a length May 18, 2024, at Pimlico on the Preakness Stakes undercard.

Desvio next made his stakes debut in the Kent Stakes at Delaware Park and handled the class test with a three-quarter-length score in the 1 3/8-mile turf race. After a third-place finish in the Grade 3 Virginia Derby, the Yoshida gelding was unplaced in his final two starts as at age 3, both in graded stakes.

Desvio returned from a layoff of five months in April 2025 at laurel Park and looked like he needed a race in an unplaced finish. Four weeks later, he again ran a big one on Preakness weekend when third in the Grade 3 Dinner Party Stakes, won by Fort Washington.

A pair of unplaced finishes followed before Desvio ran second in the Colonial Cup Stakes Sept. 6 at Colonial Downs in his fifth start of the year.

Desvio earned his first victory of 2025 in the $400,000 Sycamore Stakes, closing from far off the pace in the 1 ½-mile Grade 3 stakes under Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez to post a 34.45-1 upset and secure his first graded stakes victory.

The unraced Uncle Mo mare Fitzrovia is the dam (mother) of Desvio.