To earn a spot in the Kentucky Derby starting gate, horses will need to earn points in the designated Road to theDerby races. 2024–2025 Horse Leaderboard American European - Middle East Japan RANK HORSE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY TOTAL POINTS ...
Have You Found Your Derby Horses to Pick Above? Learn more on what bets you can make on the Kentucky Derby Placing a bet on the Kentucky Derby is a fun way to have a rooting interest in the outcome, even if you don’t know much about the sport. But learning a few nuances of ...
The Kentucky Derby is a competitive race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses and is part of the Triple Crown. 20 horses compete for prize money on a 2.01 km (1.25 miles) dirt track. Geldings and colts are required to carry 57 kg (126lb) and fillies 55 kg (121lb) while running the...
The field for the Kentucky Derby has been kept to a maximum of 20 horses since 1975. If a horse pulls out, or scratches, from the race in the days leading up to the Derby, additional horses can fill out the field until the scratch deadline. Last year's Derby field featured 18 horses...
The Kentucky Derby is 1 1/4 miles or 10 furlongs long. Only 3-year-old Thoroughbreds are eligible to compete on the dirt track, and 20 horses participate in the Kentucky Derby. It’s called “The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports” due to its approximate duration. ...
Kentucky Derby Offers 19 HorsesED SCHUYLER JR., AP Racing Writer
Get the full list of Kentucky Derby contenders for May 3, 2017. We cover all the favorites and underdog horses for this huge horse racing event.
It was this stubborn attitude, along with a belief that the Derby was raced too early in the year—before young three-year-old horses had fully matured—that impelled owner Samuel Riddle to keep the great Man o’ War out of the Kentucky Derby in 1920, thereby denying him a probable ...
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2024 Kentucky Derby horses Here's thecomplete listof the 2024 Kentucky Derby horses in order with their morning line odds: Dornoch (20-1) Sierra Leone (3-1) Mystik Dan (20-1) Catching Freedom (8-1) Catalytic (30-1) Just Steel (20-1) ...