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Thrillers, Comebacks, and Powerhouse Performances: The Top 10 Races of 2024

As 2024 comes to an end, this seems like a good time to look back at the past year and reflect on the best races of the year. Here is one racing fan’s highly subjective list of the top 10 races of 2024, with the criteria being stretch battles, close finishes, or exceptional performances in stakes races run at the highest level of competition. We hope you had a good year, and that you will enjoy plenty of good racing and wagering in the year ahead. Good luck and happy holidays!

Built, Wayne Catalano, 2025 road to the Kentucky Derby. Gun Runner Stakes

2025 Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles: Gun Runner Stakes Winner Built

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.

Triple Crown winners, War Admiral, Omaha, and American Pharoah, BloodHorse Library, Eclipse Sportswire

SLIDESHOW: U.S. Triple Crown Winners from Sir Barton to Justify

The U.S. Triple Crown in Thoroughbred racing has been swept by only 13 horses in the history of the sport. It takes a special racehorse to win the 1 1/4-mile Kentucky Derby, the 1 3/16-mile Preakness Stakes, and the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes in a five-week stretch during the spring of a 3-year-old campaign.

Let's take a look back at the 13 superstars in this slideshow below who were able to etch their names in the history books as Triple Crown winners.

Fair Grounds, Built, Wayne Catalano, Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby

Built Steps onto Derby Trail with Gun Runner Stakes Win at Fair Grounds

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 Fashionably Late-Running Carry Back, a True Cinderella Story

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.

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