The 2025 Kentucky Derby is scheduled to start at 6:57 p.m. ET on Sunday, May 3. Eleven other races lead into the Run for the Roses (including the Old Forester Turf Classic), starting at 11 a.m. ET.

One of his horses, Medina Spirit, crossed the finish line first in the 2021 Derby and failed a post-race drug test. The horse was disqualified and Baffert was punished.

Mystik Dan, ridden by jockey Brian J. Hernandez Jr., crosses the finish line to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Trainer Bill Mott, 71, was previously credited with a victory when Country House captured the 2019 Kentucky Derby via disqualification but got to watch his own horse cross the finish line in front ...

Mott won his first Derby in 2019, also run on a sloppy track, when Country House was elevated to first after Maximum Security crossed the finish line first and was disqualified during a 22-minute ...

Derby Week all-sources betting totaled $446.6 million, topping the previous record of $412 million set last year. Saturday’s official Kentucky Derby attendance was 156,710, an increase from last ...

The Kentucky Derby might be, as its trademarked slogan suggests, the most exciting two minutes in sports® — and it is unquestionably the most wagered-on, most-watched and most-attended horse race in ...