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See the list of 2024 Kentucky Derby horses. Fierceness. Catching Freedom. Forever Young. Endlessly. Track Phantom. Domestic Product. West Saratoga. Just Steel. Jason Frakes: 502-582-4046; jfrakes ...
The Kentucky Derby (/ ˈ d ɜːr b i /) is an American Grade I stakes race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is run by three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (10 furlongs; 2,012 metres).
In April 2024 Kentucky Downs announced that the Dueling Grounds Derby would be renamed as the Nashville Derby. Kentucky Downs co-manager Ron Winchell said that the name change reflected the track's close proximity to Nashville, Tennessee. The positioning of the Nashville Derby at the end of August, Winchell added, was designed to attract ...
The Derby is held annually on the first Saturday in May, at the end of the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. It is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km), and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875.
The Kentucky Derby might be considered "The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports," but its more prominent moniker is the "Run for the Roses." The term stems from the wreath of roses given to the winning ...
Catching Freedom is 8-1 to win the Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports, behind just Fierceness (5-2) and Sierra Leone (3-1). “The biggest thing with a 20-horse field, and hopefully he can get a ...
This is a listing of first-place, second-place, third-place and fourth-place finishers, and the number of starters in the Kentucky Derby, a Grade I American Thoroughbred race run at 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles on dirt for three-year-olds. It is the first leg of the American Triple Crown, run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
The event is named for Iroquois, the first American horse to win the English Epsom Derby who in turn was named for the Native American tribe, the Iroquois. In 199,0 the event was classified as Grade III. [2] In 2013, the distance for the event was increased to 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 mile. [3] In 2020 and 2023 the event was decreased back to 1 mile.