Buy TicketsWinner of last fall’s Coolmore Turf Mile (G1) at Keeneland, E Five Racing Thoroughbreds’ Carl Spackler (IRE) headlines a field of nine entered Friday for the 37th running of the $650,000 Maker’s Mark Mile (G1) for 4-year-olds and up on the grass.
The Maker’s Mark Mile will go as the ninth race on the 10-race program on Friday, April 11 with a 5:16 p.m. ET post time. First post is 1 p.m.
Trained by Chad Brown, Carl Spackler will be making his 2025 debut in the Maker’s Mark Mile. In his last race, Carl Spackler was sixth in the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) Presented by PDJF at Del Mar.
Carl Spackler has seven wins, including five graded stakes, in 11 starts with earnings of $1,608,475. With a victory next week, he would join Wise Dan (2012-2013) and Perfect Soul (IRE) (2003-2004) as the only horses to win the Turf Mile and come back the following spring to win the Maker’s Mark Mile.
Brown saddled Raging Bull (FR) to win the 2021 Maker’s Mark Mile.
Flavien Prat, who won the 2023 Maker’s Mark Mile on Chez Pierre (FR), has the mount from post 6.
Amerman Racing Stable’s Trikari is the other Grade 1 winner in the field.
Trained by Graham Motion, won the race in 2016 with the filly Miss Temple City, Trikari also will be making his 2025 debut. Winner of the Belmont Derby Invitational (G1) as well as the Secretariat (G2) and American Turf (G2) Presented by TwinSpires last year, Trikari will be ridden by John Velazquez from post 3.
Velazquez is a two-time race winner with Wise Dan (2014) and Soviet Line (IRE) (1999).
Field for the $650,000 Maker’s Mark Mile (G1)
Friday, April 11, Race 9, 5:16 p.m.
4-year-olds and up, 123 pounds, 1 mile (turf)
| Post | Horse | Trainer | Jockey |
| 1 | Integration | Shug McGaughey | Frankie Dettori |
| 2 | Funtastic Again | Wesley Ward | Irad Ortiz Jr. |
| 3 | Trikari | Graham Motion | John Velazquez |
| 4 | Grand Aspen | Jonathan Thomas | Joel Rosario |
| 5 | Santorini | Rodolphe Brisset | Alex Achard |
| 6 | Carl Spackler (IRE) | Chad Brown | Flavien Prat |
| 7 | Silent Heart | Brian Lynch | Luis Saez |
| 8 | Northern Invader | Cherie DeVaux | Jose Ortiz |
| 9 | Seminole Chief | Jack Sisterson | Dylan Davis |