Florida Derby Offers 100-50-25-15-10 Kentucky Derby Points To Top-Five Finishers
Between 1953 and 2025, a span of 73 years, the Florida Derby (G1), held annually at Gulfstream Park, has produced Twenty-five Kentucky Derby winners, a record unequaled by any other Road to the Kentucky Derby prep race.
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Pre-Draw News
Sovereignty Most Likely Headed to G1 Florida Derby
March 7 – Sovereignty, Godolphin’s homebred 3-year-old, dramatic late-running winner of the Coolmore Fountain of Youth (G2) March 1, is being pointed to a return to Gulfstream Park for the $1 million Curlin Florida Derby (G1) March 29.
Sovereignty earned 50 Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifying points for his Fountain of Youth victory by a neck over River Thames, and is tied with 2024 2-year-old male champion Citizen Bull for second on the list with 60. The 1 1/8-mile Florida Derby offers points to the top five finishers on a 100-50-25-15-10 basis.
“I think we’re leaning very heavily toward the Florida Derby,” Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said Friday. “We’re 95 percent sure that’s where we’re going.”
Sovereignty, a bay son of Into Mischief, entered the 1 1/16-mile Fountain of Youth having gone unraced since breaking his maiden in his third start, the Oct. 27 Street Sense (G3) at Churchill Downs. He trailed by as many as five lengths after six furlongs in the Fountain of Youth before closing with aplomb to nail previously undefeated River Thames.
Mott said Sovereignty exited his comeback race well and has resumed training at his winter base of Payson Park.
“He looks good,” Mott said. “He’s doing good and back on the track galloping.”
2025 Florida Derby Probables
Sovereignty, Tappan Street, Disruptor, River Thames, Neoequos, Grande
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