It is time for the 151st Run for the Roses — aka the 2025 Kentucky Derby. The annual race at Kentucky’s Churchill Downs will probably be run this night, with all 20 horses anticipated to be out of the gates at 6:57 p.m. ET. The drawing of the Kentucky Derby publish positions was held this previous Saturday, and the odds for the most-watched horse racing occasion of the 12 months are already in. Journalism drew the favorable publish place No. 8 and is the 3-1 morning-line favorite for the 151st Kentucky Derby. The 2 different horses with single-digit odds headed into this 12 months’s Run For the Roses are Sovereignty (5-1) and Sandman (6-1).
Protection of the primary leg of the Triple Crown will start right this moment at 12 p.m. ET on USA Community and Peacock, earlier than transferring over to NBC (and Peacock) at 2:30 p.m. Are you stocked up on Mint Julep ingredients? This is all the pieces you might want to find out about methods to watch the 2025 Kentucky Derby right this moment.
How you can watch the 2025 Kentucky Derby:
Date: Saturday, Could 3, 2025
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Time: (roughly) 6:57 p.m. ET
Location: Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky.
TV channel: NBC
Streaming: Peacock
When is the Kentucky Derby 2025?
The Run for the Roses returns Saturday, Could 3.
What time is the Kentucky Derby on?
Protection of the 151st Run for the Roses will start as early as 12 p.m. ET (on Peacock and USA Community) and a couple of:30 p.m. ET on NBC. The precise race will not start till after 6:30 ET. The present publish time is 6:57 p.m. ET.
2025 Kentucky Derby channel:
The 151st Kentucky Derby will air on NBC and stream stay on Peacock. Further protection of the derby and Kentucky Oaks Day will air on USA Community. Throughout the 2 days of racing, NBC Sports activities will cowl 17 stay races.
How you can watch the Kentucky Derby with out cable:
At $8/month, a Peacock subscription is the simplest approach to stream this 12 months’s Kentucky Derby. An ad-supported Peacock subscription enables you to stream stay sports activities and occasions airing on NBC. Plus, you will get entry to hundreds of hours of reveals and films, together with beloved sitcoms comparable to Parks and Recreation and The Office.
For $14/month, you possibly can improve to an ad-free subscription that features stay entry to your native NBC affiliate (not simply throughout designated sports activities and occasions) and the flexibility to obtain choose titles to look at offline.
Extra methods to look at the Kentucky Derby stay with out cable:
Kentucky Derby 2025 post positions and odds:
Listed here are the post positions and odds for all 20 horses within the 151st Kentucky Derby:
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Citizen Bull (20-1)
Neoequos (30-1)
Closing Gambit (30-1)
American Promise (30-1)
Admire Daytona (30-1)
Luxor Cafe (15-1)
Journalism (3-1)
Burnham Sq. (12-1)
Flying Mohawk (30-1)
East Avenue (20-1)
Writer (20-1)
Tiztastic (20-1)
Render Judgment (30-1)
Coal Battle (30-1)
Sandman (6-1)
Sovereignty (5-1)
Chunk of Gold (30-1)
Owen Almighty (30-1)
Baeza (12-1)
*Grande — who was initially slated to start out within the ninth publish — was scratched Friday as a result of a foot bruise. His alternative has but to be named.
When is the Kentucky Oaks 2025?
The Kentucky Derby’s sister race, the Kentucky Oaks (a race for 3-year-old thoroughbred fillies) will probably be held the day earlier than the 151st Kentucky Derby, on Friday, Could 2.
How you can watch the Kentucky Oaks 2025:
The Kentucky Oaks fillies race will air on USA Community and stream stay on Peacock the day earlier than the 2025 Derby. Protection of the race will air from 1-6 p.m. ET.
How lengthy is the Kentucky Derby?
The Kentucky Derby is 1 1/4 miles of racing (or 10 furlongs). The Derby’s precise race time sometimes hovers round 2 minutes (solely two horses have ever run the Kentucky Derby in beneath two minutes). However protection of the 2025 race will start as early as 12 p.m. ET on Saturday.
2025 Kentucky Derby Purse — how a lot is the Kentucky Derby prize cash?
The winner of the 2025 Run for the Roses will obtain a portion of the $5 million purse. The prize cash, or purse, is damaged up among the many high 5 finishers.
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This is how the prize cash breaks down:
1st place: $3.1 million
2nd place: $1 million
third place: $500,000
4th place: $250,000
fifth place: $150,000
The Kentucky Derby winner’s prize cash is usually damaged down like this: 80% of the successful purse is awarded to the proprietor(s) of the successful horse, and the successful coach receives 10%. The successful jockey additionally will get 10%.
2025 Kentucky Derby horses, trainers and jockeys:
Listed here are the 20 contenders for the 2025 Kentucky Derby, so as of publish place.
1. Citizen Bull
Jockey: Martin Garcia
Coach: Bob Baffert
2. Neoequos
Jockey: Flavien Pratt
Coach: Saffie Joseph Jr.
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3. Closing Gambit
Jockey: Luan Machado
Coach: Brad H. Cox
4. Rodriguez Baeza
Jockey: Michael E. Smith
Coach: Bob Baffert
5. American Promise
Jockey: Nik Juarez
Coach: D. Wayne Lukas
6. Admire Daytona
Jockey: Christophe Lemaire
Coach: Yukihiro Kato
7. Luxor Cafe
Jockey: TBA
Coach: Noriyuki Hori
8. Journalism
Jockey: Umberto Rispoli
Coach: Mike McCarthy
9. Burnham Sq.
Jockey: Brian T. Hernandez, Jr.
Coach: Ian R. Wilkes
10. Grande
Jockey: John Velazquez
Coach: Todd A. Pletcher
11. Flying Mohawk
Jockey: Joseph D. Ramos
Coach: D. Whitworth Beckman
12. East Avenue
Jockey: Luan Machado
Coach: Brendan P. Walsh
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13. Writer
Jockey: Flavien Prat
Coach: Steven M. Asmussen
14. Tiztastic
Jockey: Joel Rosario
Coach: Steven M. Asmussen
15. Render Judgement
Jockey: Julien Leparoux
Coach: Kenneth G. McPeek
16. Coal Battle
Jockey: Juan P. Vargas
Coach: Lonnie Briley
17. Sandman
Jockey: Jose L. Ortiz
Coach: Mark Casse
18. Sovereignty
Jockey: Manuel Franco
Coach: William I. Mott
19. Chunk of Gold
Jockey: Jareth Loveberry
Coach: Ethan W. West
20. Owen Almighty
Jockey: TBA
Coach: Brian Lynch
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