Citizen Bull And White Abarrio Debut Atop NTRA Top Thoroughbred Polls
Updated: January 28, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Newly-turned 3-year-old Citizen Bull (Into Mischief) and Saturday's GI Pegasus World Cup winner White Abarrio (Race Day) top Week 1 of the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll through Jan. 26.
In addition to Citizen Bull, who won the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Del Mar last November, Bob Baffert also trains the second-place 3-year-old in Barnes (Into Mischief). Godolphin's 'TDN Rising Star' East Avenue (Medaglia d'Oro) was third while Saturday's GIII Southwest Stakes winner Speed King (Volatile) rounded out the top five.
White Abarrio was the top-ranked thoroughbred, beating out newly-crowned Horse of the Year and 'TDN Rising Star' Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) and last year's GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner and fellow 'Rising Star' Sierra Leone (Gun Runner). Pegasus third and another 'Rising Star' Locked (Gun Runner) and MGISW 'Rising Star' Fierceness complete the top five.