2025 Robert Lewis Stakes odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets for the Kentucky Derby prep race
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will look to add to his record number of wins in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes by a trainer when he sends out three horses in the 2025 Robert B. Lewis Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. The 72-year-old Baffert has won the Lewis 12 times, including the last six. On Saturday, he goes for No. 13 with reigning juvenile champion Citizen Bull, Rodriguez and Madaket Road. Citizen Bull is the 6-5 favorite in the 2025 Robert B. Lewis Stakes odds. Rodriguez and Madaket Road are 7-5 and 5-2, respectively. Clock Tower (10-1) and Valentines Candy (30-1) round out the five 2025 Robert B. Lewis Stakes horses. Post time is 4:28 p.m. ET. The latest 2025 Robert B. Lewis Stakes weather is calling for partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 60s.
With unproven 3-year-olds set to enter the starting gate on Saturday, you'll want to see what Santa Anita-based racing reporter and insider Michelle Yu, who has seen these horses train, has to say before making any 2025 Robert B. Lewis 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.
Yu also has tremendous handicapping chops. 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 the Derby.
Last year, she 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. Anyone who has followed her is way up.
For the 2025 Robert B. Lewis Stakes, Yu has made her picks and constructed her bets.
One surprise: Yu is completely fading Rodriguez, even though he is the 7-5 second choice. "He bested a field of maidens [in his last start] so take that win with a grain of salt," she told SportsLine. Yu is not using Rodriguez in any of her wagers.
Instead, Yu is "all-in" on a horse with "foundation." She is including this horse in her 2025 Robert B. Lewis Stakes bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see her picks before locking in any of your own.
So who wins the Robert B. Lewis Stakes 2025? And how has Yu constructed her wagers? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Michelle Yu's 2025 Robert B. Lewis Stakes picks, all from the racing insider!
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