It’s the first Saturday in May – you know what that means? Horses, Hats and juleps!
It will be a edge of your seat event.
Join in wherever you might be –

Date: Saturday, May 3

Post Time: 6:57 p.m. ET

TV: NBC

Who Is it gonna be? Gotta watch to see.

I always bet on the Black Stallion!!

Odds and post position;

No. 1 Citizen Bull (17-1)

• Jockey: Martin Garcia | Trainer: Bob Baffert
• Career Highlight: Won the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
• Fun Fact: This will be Garcia’s fifth Derby. His best finish was third in 2015 aboard Dortmund.

No. 2 Neoequos (60-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Pratt | Trainer: Saffie Joseph Jr.
• Career Highlight: Finished third in the Fountain of Youth Stakes
• Fun Fact: Bred in Florida, Neoequos is attempting to become the seventh horse bred in Florida to win the Kentucky Derby. The last was Silver Charm in 1997.

No. 3 Final Gambit (17-1)

• Jockey: Luan Machado | Trainer: Brad H. Cox
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Jeff Ruby Steaks
• Fun Fact: The Kentucky Derby will be Final Gambit’s first race on dirt.

No. 4 Rodriguez (9-1) SCRATCHED

• Jockey: Michael E. Smith | Trainer: Bob Baffert
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Wood Memorial
• Fun Fact: Both of Rodriguez’s victories have been wire to wire, and he figures to be at or near the front early in the Derby.

No. 5 American Promise (12-1)

• Jockey: Nik Juarez | Trainer: D. Wayne Lukas
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Virginia Derby
• Fun Fact: The phrase “American Promise” is also associated with a handful of moments leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

No. 6 Admire Daytona (40-1)

• Jockey: Christophe Lemaire | Trainer: Yukihiro Kato
• Career Highlight: Won the UAE Derby
• Fun Fact: The UAE Derby was the fourth consecutive time a Japan-bred horse has won the race.

No. 7 Luxor Cafe (14-1)

• Jockey: TBA | Trainer: Noriyuki Hori
• Race Highlight: Won the 2025 Fukuryu Stakes
• Fun Fact: Luxor Cafe won three stakes races in Japan to qualify for the Kentucky Derby. Trainer and horse are making their first starts outside Japan.

No. 8 Journalism (4-1)

• Jockey: Umberto Rispoli | Trainer: Mike McCarthy
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Santa Anita Derby
• Fun Fact: Curlin (Journalism’s sire) has sired winners of the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup Classic but not the Kentucky Derby.

No. 9 Burnham Square (22-1)

• Jockey: Brian T. Hernandez Jr. | Trainer: Ian R. Wilkes
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Blue Grass Stakes
• Fun Fact: Burnham Square’s grandfather is the 1990 Derby winner, Unbridled.

No. 10 Grande (17-1) SCRATCHED

• Jockey: John Velazquez | Trainer: Todd A. Pletcher
• Career Highlight: Rallied from seventh for a second-place finish in the Wood Memorial to qualify for the Derby.
• Fun Fact: Pletcher and Velazquez teamed up to win the Derby with Super Saver in 2010 and Always Dreaming in 2017.

No. 11 Flying Mohawk (39-1)

• Jockey: Joseph D. Ramos | Trainer: D. Whitworth Beckman
• Career Highlight: Second in the 2025 Jeff Ruby Steaks
• Fun Fact: The Kentucky Derby will be Flying Mohawk’s first race on dirt.

No. 12 East Avenue (36-1)

• Jockey: Luan Machado | Trainer: Brendan P. Walsh
• Career Highlight: Second in the 2025 Blue Grass Stakes
• Fun Fact: Medaglia d’Oro, East Avenue’s sire, raced in all three Triple Crown races in 2002, finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby, eighth in the Preakness and second in the Belmont.

No. 13 Publisher (33-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Prat | Trainer: Steven M. Asmussen
• Career Highlight: Finished second in the Arkansas Derby
• Fun Fact: Asmussen is the winningest trainer of all time, having amassed over 10,000 victories as a trainer.

No. 14 Tiztastic (19-1)

• Jockey: Joel Rosario | Trainer: Steven M. Asmussen
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Louisiana Derby
• Fun Fact: Asmussen’s father was a jockey, as are his two sons.

No. 15 Render Judgment (12-1)

• Jockey: Julien Leparoux | Trainer: Kenneth G. McPeek
• Career Highlight: Finished fifth in the Blue Grass Stakes
• Fun Fact: The Kentucky Derby will be Leparoux’s first ride on Render Judgment.

No. 16 Coal Battle (31-1)

• Jockey: Juan P. Vargas | Trainer: Lonnie Briley
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Rebel Stakes
• Fun Fact: Coal Battle’s parents, Coal Front and Wolfblade, are descendants of Seattle Slew.

No. 17 Sandman (5-1)

• Jockey: Jose L. Ortiz | Trainer: Mark Casse
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Arkansas Derby
• Fun Fact: Tapit (Sandman’s sire) is the No. 1 active sire by lifetime Grade 1 winners and the all-time leading sire by earnings.

No. 18 Sovereignty (11-1)

• Jockey: Manuel Franco | Trainer: William I. Mott
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Fountain of Youth
• Fun Fact: Mott was the trainer of Resilience, who finished sixth in the Derby last year.

No. 19 Chunk of Gold (37-1)

• Jockey: Jareth Loveberry | Trainer: Ethan W. West
• Career Highlight: Placed second at the 2025 Louisiana Derby
• Fun Fact: This is Loveberry’s second Derby ride. He rode Two Phil’s to a second-place finish in 2023.

No. 20 Owen Almighty (44-1)

• Jockey: TBA | Trainer: Brian Lynch
• Career Highlight: Won the Tampa Bay Derby with the second-fastest time in its history.
• Fun Fact: Irad Ortiz Jr. rode Owen Almighty at Tampa, but the ride is in question for the Derby.

No. 21 Baeza (12-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Pratt  | Trainer: John A. Shirreffs
• Career Highlight: Placed second in the Santa Anita Derby
• Fun Fact: Baeza was purchased for $1.2 million at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.