Inside the 2025 Kentucky Derby: Unveiling the Dark Horses Set to Shake Up Churchill Downs and the American Turf Stakes

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Ten horses (two scratches) on a one-and-one-eighth-mile turf track for 4-year-olds and upward with a $1M purse. 

I’m rolling with my fellow Saratogian, trainer Chad Brown, who kills it at The Spa every summer on the Saratoga turf. Granted, the Spirit of St. Louis is making his Churchill debut. But, he won once on the Saratoga turf, finished second by a nose another time, and won on the muddy dirt track when it got moved from the turf. 

Spirit of St. Louis ran his fastest BSF in his first race this season, winning the Pegasus World Cup Turf at Gulfstream. Finally, he’s won two of three starts at this distance and Franco has won seven of his nine mounts atop the Spirit of St. Louis with seconds in the other two. 

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