2025 Haskell Stakes odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets, top picks for Saturday's race
SportsLine racing analyst Michelle Yu has identified her picks, wagers and analysis for the race featuring Preakness Stakes winner Journalism
Preakness Stakes winner Journalism returns to the races on Saturday when he leaves the starting gate in the 2025 Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. In addition to winning the Preakness, Journalism finished second in both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, both times to Sovereignty. For Saturday Journalism is the 4-5 morning-line favorite in the 2025 Haskell Stakes odds. Goal Oriented (4-1), Gosger (9-2), Burnham Square (5-1) and Bracket Buster (10-1) round out the top five choices in the odds among the eight 2025 Haskell Stakes horses.Â
Post time for the $1 million Haskell Stakes 2025 is 5:45 p.m. ET on what is expected to be a fast track under partly cloudy skies.
With talented 3-year-old horses entering the starting gate on Saturday, you NEED to see what Santa Anita-based racing reporter and insider Michelle Yu has to say before making any 2025 Haskell Stakes picks.
Few people in racing are as well-connected as Yu. An on-air host and reporter who has provided racing analysis for TVG, HRTV and the Breeders' Cup, Yu has spent a lifetime in racing. Prior to her television career, she worked for trainers Steve Asmussen and Ron Moquett. She also is married to Santa Anita-based trainer Ryan Hanson.
In a wide-open Kentucky Derby in 2021, she gave out Medina Spirit, who crossed the finish line first, as the winner at 12-1. In Pool 5 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager three years ago, she suggested a play on All Other 3-Year-Olds, which cashed at a whopping 18-1 when Rich Strike won. Join SportsLine to unlock her 2025 Haskell Stakes picks now. Use code "JOCKEY" to take 50% off!
Last year, Yu correctly called National Treasure to win the Pegasus World Cup, predicted Stronghold's upset win in the Santa Anita Derby, and smashed the exacta in the Apple Blossom Handicap. On the Belmont Stakes undercard, she nailed National Treasure's win in the Met Mile and had the winner and exacta in the Woody Stephens Stakes. She closed out the year by hitting the exacta in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
She started off 2025 by correctly going all-in on Citizen Bull to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes, and she also predicted Forever Young's win in the Saudi Cup, Journalism's win in the San Felipe Stakes, Sandman's win in the Arkansas Derby and Mindframe's win in the Churchill Downs Stakes. She also hit the exacta in the Kentucky Derby. Anyone who has followed her is way up. Join SportsLine now to unlock her 2025 Haskell Stakes picks here, and use promo code JOCKEY to unlock 50% off.
For the 2025 Haskell Stakes, Yu has made her picks and constructed her bets. One surprise: She is high on Gosger, the 9-2 third choice. "The lightly raced son of Nyquist hasn't done anything wrong in his abbreviated career, and I really like the nine-furlong distance for him," Yu told SportsLine. Yu is including Gosger in her wagers. Join SportsLine now to get her full 2025 Haskell Stakes insider picks, and get 50% off using the promo code JOCKEY.
However her top pick is a horse who "has really gotten down to serious work."Â She is including this horse in her 2025 Haskell Stakes bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see her picks before locking in any of your own.
So which horse wins the 2025 Haskell Stakes? And how has Yu constructed her wagers? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Michelle Yu's 2025 Haskell Stakes picks and bets, all from the racing insider who nailed the Kentucky Derby exacta! Use promo code JOCKEY to unlock 50% off before it's gone.
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