2025 Sunland Park Derby odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets for the Kentucky Derby prep race
SportsLine racing analyst Michelle Yu offers her picks, wagers and analysis for Sunday's race at Sunland Park
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Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will try to break the record for the number of wins in the Sunland Park Derby by a trainer when he sends out the favorite Getaway Car in the 2025 Sunland Park Derby on Sunday at Sunland Park in New Mexico. The 72-year-old Baffert has won the Sunland Derby three times, tied with Doug O'Neill for the most as a trainer. On Sunday, Baffert goes for No. 4 with Grade 3 winner Getaway Car, the 9-5 favorite in the 2025 Sunland Derby odds. Touchy (7-2), McKinzie Street (4-1), Caldera (5-1) and Take Charge Tom (8-1) round out the top five among the nine 2025 Sunland Derby horses. Stronghold won this Kentucky Derby prep race last year. The latest 2025 Sunland Derby forecast is calling for partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 60s. Post time is 6:17 p.m. ET.
With unproven three-year-olds set to enter the starting gate on Sunday, you'll want to see what Santa Anita-based racing reporter and insider Michelle Yu has to say before making any 2025 Sunland Derby 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, and she started off 2025 by correctly going all-in on Citizen Bull to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes. Anyone who has followed her is way up.
For the 2025 Sunland Park Derby, Yu has made her picks and constructed her bets. One surprise: Yu's top pick is not Getaway Car, even though he is the 9-5 favorite! "He has lost enough races to keep me from putting all of my chips on him," she told SportsLine. Yu prefers another horse over Getaway Car.
Instead, Yu is high on a contender who "has a leg up on the field" and is intrigued by a double-digit longshot who "has shown versatility from a pace standpoint." She is including these horses in her 2025 Sunland Park Derby bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see her picks before locking in any of your own.
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