2025 Virginia Derby Payout Odds: Getaway Car a Heavy Favorite

Getaway Car will be a heavy favorite to win this year's Kentucky Derby prep race, the Virginia Derby.  He pays $70 for every $50 bet.

The race is formerly a Grade II turf race, for three-year-old's, but after Colonial Downs was acquired by Churchill Downs, the race was moved to the dirt and is ungraded for 2025. The Virginia Derby is a Kentucky Derby qualifying points race.

Here are your contenders and their respective odds along with the trainer/jockey:

 1. Calling Card, 12-1. Michael Maker / Luan Machado – 6: 1-1-1 - $77,600. He ran off to win by more than 17 lengths in a field of nine at Aqueduct and finished eighth in the Grade 3 Lecomte and seventh in the Gotham (G3). Toss.  His payout is $1200 for every $100 bet with a victory here.

2. John Hancock, Scratch.  Brad Cox / Mike Smith – 2: 2-0-0 - $138,560.

3. American Promise, 10-1. D. Wayne Lukas / Nik Juarez – 8: 1-1-1 - $144,874. American Promise has a seventh place finish in the Southwest (G3) and a fifth in the Risen Star (G2) for 5 Derby points.

4. Omaha Omaha, 10-1. Michael Gorham / Raul Mena – 6: 2-1-2 - $127,300. Considered a live long shot with a payout potential of $1000 on a $100 bet, Omaha Omaha is a late-running Virginia-bred who raced as a 2-year-old at Delaware Park and Laurel Park. He won his third start going a mile on a muddy and sealed track by seven lengths.

5. Studlydoright, 15-1. John Robb / Xavier Perez – 9: 3-2-0 - $292,205. Studlydoright is the most experienced horse in the field, with nine starts, winning his first two from off the pacein the Tremont at the Belmont at Saratoga meeting. He ran in seven more stakes races and finished second in the Sanford (G3) and the Laurel Futurity and won the Nashua. He finished 4th in the Jerome.

6. Getaway Car, 7-5. Bob Baffert / Irad Ortiz Jr. – 7: 3-2-0 - $585,800. Getaway Car will ship east for the first time.  He is the winner of the Sunland Derby and second in the G2 Los Alamitos Futurity. 

Baffert told the Daily Racing Form of the Middle East trip: “It’s a tough ship for him."

In regard to his thrilling Sunland Derby win, Baffert's assistant, Jimmy Barnes, said,

“That was the race we expected him to run. Our horses like to set the pace. Juan did an excellent job of warming him up and getting him on the lead and finding more when he needed it.”

7. Rapture, 5-2. Brad Cox / Flavien Prat – 2: 1-1-0 - $74,000. Rapture has only two starts. He was second in his debut behind a horse who went on to finish fourth in the Risen Star and then won by more than six lengths at Oaklawn.  Definitely a horse to keep an eye on with a payout potential of $50 for every $20 bet.

8. Authentic Gallop, 8-1.  Tom Amoss / Javier Castellano – 7: 2-1-1 - $173,658. Authentic Gallop broke his maiden in his sixth start, which was at Oaklawn in his last race as a 2-year-old. He finished third at Fair Grounds and a win by a head in a field of six at Oaklawn last month.
9. Render Judgment, 12-1. Ken McPeek / Brian Hernandez Jr. – 5: 1-1-1 - $114,110. Render Judgment got his lone victory at Churchill Downs in October and then moved onto the Kentucky Derby trail. He finished fifth in the Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) and third in the Gun Runner

10. Georgia Magic, 20-1. Ray Handal / Sheldon Russell – 3: 1-0-0 - $56,670. Georgia Magic will make his first start away from Aqueduct, where he won his debut in November.  He finished sixth in the Jerome and last month was fourth in an allowance with first-time Lasix.