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2025 Lexington Stakes Morning Line Odds
| Post | Horse | Trainer / Jockey | ML Odds |
|---|
1 | Hard as Life | Michelle Nihei / Sophie Doyle | 30-1 |
2 | Bracket Buster | Victoria Oliver / Manny Franco | 20-1 |
3 | Bullard | Michael McCarthy / Umberto Rispoli | 9-2 |
4 | Rolando | Fausto Gutierrez / John Velazquez | 6-1 |
5 | Native Runner | Kenny McPeek / Jose Ortiz | 15-1 |
6 | Gosger | Brendan Walsh / Irad Ortiz, Jr. | 7-2 |
7 | Praetor | Chad Brown / Flavien Prat | 2-1 |
8 | Hypnus | Kenny McPeek / Luis Saez | 6-1 |
9 | Touchy | Wesley Ward / Joel Rosario | 8-1 |
2025 Lexington Stakes Results
| POST | HORSE | JOCKEY / TRAINER | WIN / PLACE / SHOW |
|---|
6 | Gosger | Irad Ortiz, Jr. / Brendan P. Walsh | $10.60 / $5.72 / $3.24 |
2 | Bracket Buster | Manuel Franco / Victoria H. Oliver | $17.46 / $6.14 |
7 | Praetor | Flavien Prat / Chad C. Brown | $2.74 |
8 | Hypnus | Luis Saez / Kenneth G. McPeek | |
3 | Bullard | Umberto Rispoli / Michael W. McCarthy | |
5 | Native Runner | Jose L. Ortiz / Kenneth G. McPeek | |
1 | Hard as Life | Sophie Doyle / Michelle Nihei |
Exotic Payouts:
- $1.00 Exacta (6-2) Paid: $66.55
- $0.50 Trifecta (6-2-7) Paid: $96.16
- $0.10 Superfecta (6-2-7-8) Paid: $71.22
Watch the 2025 Lexington Stakes
History of the Lexington Stakes
First held as a race for 2-year-olds in 1936, this didn’t become a significant 3-year-old race until 1973, when it was known as the Calumet Purse. It was renamed the Lexington Stakes in 1984.
The Lexington Stakes gives horses a last chance to get into the Kentucky Derby. Points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby table was previously allocated to the first four finishers on a 10-4-2-1 basis, but that has been upgraded to 20-8-4-2 in 2018. Currently, the first five runners can now earn 20-10-6-4-2 points respectively. It’s highly unlikely to be enough to earn the winner a Derby spot in itself, but the points can be enough to secure a start for a horse already on the fringe of qualifying.
Just two horses that ran in the Lexington Stakes have gone on to win the Derby; Swale, who finished second in the Lexington Stakes in 1984, and Charismatic, who won both races in 1999. Other winners of the race include the Classic winners Master Derby, Risen Star, and Touch Gold.
These days the race is used more often as a prep for the Preakness Stakes or Belmont Stakes than the Kentucky Derby; no Lexington Stakes runner has contested the Derby since 2011. Many of the horses won’t have contested earlier Derby prep races; punters may need to look at a wide variety of previous races when making their selections for this race.
Lexington Stakes Historical Results & All-Time Winners
| Year | Winner | Jockey / Trainer | Distance / TIme |
|---|
2025 | Gosger | Irad Ortiz, Jr. / Brendan P. Walsh | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:44:15 |
2024 | Encino | Florent Geroux / Brad H. Cox | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:43.93 |
2023 | First Mission | Luis Saez / Brad H. Cox | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:43.74 |
2022 | Tawny Port | Florent Geroux / Brad H. Cox | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:45.24 |
2021 | King Fury | Brian Hernandez Jr. / Kenneth G. McPeek | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:43.50 |
2020 | Race not held | ||
2019 | Owendale | Florent Geroux / Brad H. Cox | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:44.14 |
2018 | My Boy Jack | Kent J. Desormeaux / J. Keith Desormeaux | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:44.22 |
2017 | Senior Investment | Channing Hill / Kenneth G. McPeek | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:45.05 |
2016 | Collected | Javier Castellano / Bob Baffert | 1 1⁄16 miles / 1:43.33 |
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