Built earned 10 points on the Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve with a dominating gate-to-wire score in the $96,000 Gun Runner Stakes at Fair Grounds Dec. 21.
The history of horse racing is filled with rags-to-riches stories of horses and horsemen rising from unknown beginnings to succeed at the highest levels of the sport. But has there ever been a champion as improbable as Carry Back?
His story reads like a fairy tale, a veritable Cinderella story.
Part 1 of the Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve comes to an end Saturday as the Gun Runner Stakes at Fair Grounds brings down the curtain on the 2-year-old preps for the 2025 run for the roses.
Welcome to Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the Triple Crown trail, usually from the Road to the Kentucky Derby schedule that grants qualifying points to the first jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown. The 1 ¼-mile Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve will be held May 3, 2025, at Churchill Downs.
Inaugurated in 2021, the $100,000 Gun Runner Stakes for 2-year-olds racing 1 1/16 miles at Fair Grounds is one of the youngest Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve prep races. Yet it’s already proved worthy as an important Kentucky Derby qualifier.
