Ian Wilkes talks Burnham Square on

the TDN Writers’ Room

   Ian Wilkes doesn’t rush his young horses. You won’t seem them running in 4 1/2-furlong races at Keeneland in the spring and they may not peak until late in their three-year-old year or even early in their four-year-old year. That’s probably why he’s had only one starter in the GI Kentucky Derby, McCraken (Ghostzapper), who finished eighth in the 2017 GI Kentucky Derby. But this time it’s different. Wilkes has come up with a horse that has forced his way into the Derby picture. That was evident when the Wilkes-trained Burnham Square (Liam’s Map) recorded an impressive win in last Saturday’s GIII Holy Bull S. at Gulfstream. To talk about Burnham Square and the Road to the Kentucky Derby, Wilkes was this week’s Gainseway Guest of the Week on the TDN Writers’ Room Podcast, presented by Keeneland.

   Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by WinStar Farm, the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders’ Association, West Point Thoroughbreds, XBTV.com, the KTOB and 1/ST Racing, the team of Randy Moss and Bill Finley reviewed the major three-year-old preps of the weekend, which included a rousing comeback win for Citizen Bull (Into Mischief) in the GII Robert B. Lewis S.  

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