{"id":73280,"date":"2025-05-04T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/73280\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:31:11","slug":"horses-and-latest-odds-for-churchill-downs-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/73280\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses and latest odds for Churchill Downs run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/83213236007-usatsi-22609172.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-play-alt-white.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Derby 2025: Baffert&#8217;s return, and Journalism is the horse to watch<\/p>\n<p>Previewing the 151st Kentucky Derby, focusing on Journalism&#8217;s chances and Bob Baffert&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Follow along throughout the day for\u00a0live coverage of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/horses\/triple\/derby\/2025\/05\/03\/kentucky-derby-2025-live-updates\/83392711007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">151st Kentucky Derby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/horses\/triple\/derby\/2025\/04\/28\/kentucky-derby-2025-date-time-odds\/83214842007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/horses\/triple\/derby\/2025\/04\/28\/kentucky-derby-2025-date-time-odds\/83214842007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2025 Kentucky Derby<\/a>, a historic event for horse racing enthusiasts, has arrived at the prestigious Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Now, we await to see which of the field of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/horses\/triple\/derby\/2025\/04\/30\/kentucky-derby-2025-power-ranking-odds-field\/83344989007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">19 horses<\/a> will be adorned with the garland of roses.<\/p>\n<p>In the fiercely competitive lineup for the 151st Run for the Roses, Journalism emerges as the early favorite with odds of 4-1. Trained by Michael McCarthy, Journalism enters the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/kentucky-derby\/\" data-autotag=\"6f061ad5-8b6b-4791-a971-69159af737fa\" rel=\"noopener\">Kentucky Derby<\/a> on a streak of four consecutive wins, closely followed by Sandman with odds of 5-1. Also in the lineup is Luxor Cafe, the son of the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. Despite being considered a long shot with odds of 15-1, his prestigious bloodline is certain to draw attention. It&#8217;s worth noting that only 13 horses have ever won the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the complete list of participants and the final odds before the 2025 Kentucky Derby:<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Kentucky Derby odds: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/horses\/triple\/derby\/2025\/04\/30\/kentucky-derby-2025-odds-predictions-favorites-sleepers-horses\/83368332007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Favorites, sleeper picks, predictions for horse field<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2025 Kentucky Derby horses and odds<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/sports\/horses\/triple\/derby\/2025\/05\/03\/2025-kentucky-derby-current-horses-odds-live-today-may-3-churchill-downs-field-contenders-finish\/83362828007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Odds as of 7:02 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 3<\/a>, according to KentuckyDerby.com.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Derby 2025: TV, streaming and where to watch<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday, May 3<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coverage starts<\/strong>: 2:30 p.m. ET<\/li>\n<li><strong>Post time:<\/strong>\u00a07:02 p.m. ET<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Churchill Downs (Louisville, Kentucky)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cable TV:<\/strong>\u00a0NBC, USA Network<\/li>\n<li><strong>Streaming:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/stream\/tv\/?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=USAT&amp;subId2=OTHER&amp;subId3=2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fubo<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imp.i305175.net\/anPaeY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peacock<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve got the Derby covered: <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.usatoday.com\/newsletters\/sports\/?ipid=signuptop10\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/profile.usatoday.com\/newsletters\/sports\/?ipid=signuptop10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up<\/a> for USA TODAY&#8217;s Sports newsletter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/stream\/tv\/?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=USAT&amp;subId2=KentuckyDerby&amp;subId3=2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noreferrer noopener\">Watch the 2025 Kentucky Derby on Fubo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentucky Derby 2025: Baffert&#8217;s return, and Journalism is the horse to watch Previewing the 151st Kentucky Derby, focusing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[5176,4304,36017,34543,36014,36021,36018,36328,36331,36329,9348,288,23259,32578,36330,12,5772,5179,5185,5180,1071,12725,79,2027,36023,6924,49,978,659,36020],"class_list":{"0":"post-73280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-betting","10":"tag-churchill","11":"tag-churchill-downs","12":"tag-derby","13":"tag-disclaimer","14":"tag-downs","15":"tag-exclude","16":"tag-exclude-smart-fronts","17":"tag-fronts","18":"tag-horse","19":"tag-horse-racing","20":"tag-kentucky","21":"tag-kentucky-derby","22":"tag-louisville","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-now","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-positive","27":"tag-positive","28":"tag-racing","29":"tag-smart","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-betting","32":"tag-sports-betting-widget-and-disclaimer","33":"tag-sports-news","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-us","36":"tag-usa","37":"tag-widget"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114448399293786763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}