Mike Smith rides Baffert’s Rodriguez to win the $750K 2025 G2 Wood Memorial At Aqueduct Saturday. April 5 2025. A 100 point Kentucky Derby prep race.
The jockeys and trainers of the top 3 finishers are listed below along with the win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, superfecta and any daily double, pick 3, pick 4, pick 5, pick 6 or other exotic payouts.
Partial replay courtesy Of RTN-TV https://www.rtn.tv/ along with handicapping and comments by Laughlin007.
Payouts:
PP 1
Rodriguez
Mike E Smith
Bob Baffert
$9.30
$6.20
$5.30
7
PP 7
Grande
Dylan Davis
Todd A Pletcher
–
$6.60
$5.80
8
PP 8
Passion Rules
Kendrick Carmouche
Brad H Cox
–
–
$6.80
Pool Type
Runners
Payout
$1 Exacta
1/7
$27.00
$0.50 Trifecta
1/7/8
$100.00
$0.10 Superfecta
1/7/8/2
$61.65
$1 Double
6/1
$62.25
$1 Pick-3
1/6/1
$405.00
$1 Grand Slam
1,2,4,5,8/1,2,6,8/1,2,6,8/1
$21.10
of people have been waiting for it’s the
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uh
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$750,000 Grade 2 Wood Memorial a
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Kentucky Derby prep race the uh it’s for
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three-year-olds obviously one mile and
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an eighth on the dirt the early morning
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favorite was the one Rodriguez uh he’s
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been
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uh outb the number two Captain Cook um
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in any case uh this is like I say this
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is a Kentucky Derby win and you’re in
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race and uh here we go carous looking
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for a way through rodriguez turns it
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from home and has the lead it’s
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Rodriguez trying to open up is doing
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just that rodriguez is now taken three
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almost four out of the field grande in
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the center of the racetrack is chased
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all the time here by Captain Cook it is
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Rodriguez rodriguez with a 16th left to
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go rodriguez is opening up it’s a front
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running score the 100th running goes to
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Rodriguez mike Smith win it they win the
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Wood Memorial presented by Resorts World
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Casino grande finished second passion
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rules third then came Captain Cook
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trying to hold off the late rally there
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from McAfee final running time 1 minute
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48.1 5 seconds
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well there you go it came 1752 when
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Rodriguez and Mike Smith have punched
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their ticket to the Kentucky Derby we
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got one more race coming up it’s the
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Sanita Derby where Bob Baffford’s
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probably going to get another one anyway
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this is Laughlin 0007 signing off for
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now we’re on the road to the Kentucky
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Derby and things are really heating up
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so uh thanks for watching and if you
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have any questions or comments feel free
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to leave them below good luck out there
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