Built on Saturday kicked off a series of four Kentucky Derby (G1) preps at Fair Grounds this winter with an emphatic 6 3/4-length triumph in the $96,000 Gun Runner S.
A very competitive group of 12 fillies and mares will vie in Thursday’s $100,000 Nelson J. Menard Memorial S. at Fair Grounds providing a potential lucrative return for an exotic exacta bet.
Cyclone State showed speed from the start and joined the Kentucky Derby trail with a dominant win in the Jerome S. at Aqueduct, picking up 10 points in his stakes debut.