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2025 Kentucky Derby
The 2025 Kentucky Derby (branded as the 151st Running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve for sponsorship reasons) was the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby. It took place on May 3, 2025, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The 2025 Derby was won by Sovereignty (horse), Sovereignty, who entered the Thoroughbred racing, race off of a win in the Fountain of Youth Stakes and a second-place finish in the Florida Derby. Sovereignty was trained by William I. Mott, Bill Mott, who won his second Derby—the first since he trained Country House (horse), Country House, who was elevated to first place following the disqualification of Maximum Security (horse), Maximum Security in the 2019 Kentucky Derby. It was the first Derby victory for Venezuelan jockey Junior Alvarado, and the first win in the race for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Godolphin (racing), Godolphin racing. Godolphin won the Kentucky Oaks the previous day with Good Cheer (horse), Good Chee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby () is an American Graded stakes race, Grade I stakes Thoroughbred racing, race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is run by three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of . Colt (horse), Colts and geldings carry and fillies . Held annually on the first Saturday in May, the Derby is the first leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States), Triple Crown. It is preceded by the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is known as "The Run for the Roses", as the winning horse is draped in a blanket of roses. Lasting approximately two minutes, the Derby has been alternately called "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports", "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports", or "The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports", coined by Churchill Downs president Matt Winn. At least two of these descriptions are thought to be derived from the words of sportswriter Grantland Rice, when in 1935 he said "Those two minutes and a second or so of derby ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentucky Oaks
The Kentucky Oaks is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The race currently covers at Churchill Downs; the horses carry . The Kentucky Oaks is held on the Friday before the Kentucky Derby each year. The winner gets $846,300 of the $1,500,000 purse, and a large garland blanket of lilies, resulting in the nickname "Lilies for the Fillies." A silver Kentucky Oaks Trophy is presented to the winner. History The first running of the Kentucky Oaks was on May 19, 1875, when Churchill Downs was known as the Louisville Jockey Club. The race was founded by Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. along with the Kentucky Derby, the Clark Handicap, and the Falls City Handicap. The Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby are the oldest continuously contested sporting events in American history. The Kentucky Oaks was modeled after the British Epsom Oaks, which has been run annually at Epsom Downs, Epsom, in Surrey sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnham Square
Burnham Square (foaled April 9, 2022) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in 2025 as a three-year-old. Background Burnham Square is a bay gelding bred and owned by Whitham Thoroughbreds. His sire is Liam's Map and his dam is Linda who was sired by Scat Daddy. His dam Linda was also owned by Whitham Thoroughbreds and trained by Ian R. Wilkes won the 2016 Grade III Mrs. Revere Stakes at Churchill Downs winning $407,310 with a record of 3-4-5 in 15 starts. Second dam, Beautiful Noise was also a graded winner winning the 2001 Grade II Santa Ana Stakes at Santa Anita Park for Janis Whitham and the third dam, Listen Well was a winner at Belmont Park from champion Secretariat. Burnham Square became the fifth Grade I winner for sire Liam's Map, who stands at Lane's End Farm Lane's End Farm is a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Versailles, Kentucky established in 1979. The original land was part of Bosque Bonita Farm and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandman (horse)
Sandman (foaled February 27, 2022) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Grade I Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park in 2025 as a three-year-old. Background Sandman is a gray colt that was bred in Kentucky by Robert Lothenbach of Lothenbach Stables. He was sired by Tapit, the leading sire in the US in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Tapit stands at Gainesway Farm for $185,000 in 2025. Sandman is out of the Distorted Humor mare Distorted Music and is owned by D. J. Stable, St Elias Stable, West Point Thoroughbreds, and CJ Stables. Sandman's dam Distorted Music has produced three winners including She Can't Sing, who won the Grade III Chilukki Stakes at Churchill Downs in 2022. Sandman was sold for $1,200,000 at the 2024 Ocala Breeders' Sales March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training on consignment as part of a complete dispersal for his breeder, Lothenbach Stables. The dispersal followed Bob Lothenbach of Lothenbach Stables' death in November 2023 at age 64. A recent dispute over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalism (horse)
Journalism (foaled February 6, 2022) is a multiple-Graded stakes race, Grade winning American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2025 Graded stakes race, Grade I Santa Anita Derby and the 2025 Preakness Stakes and finished second in the 2025 Kentucky Derby and 2025 Belmont Stakes. Background Journalism is a Bay (horse), bay colt who was bred in Kentucky by Don Alberto Corporation out of the multiple Graded stakes race, Grade I-placed, graded stakes winner Mopotism. The daughter of Uncle Mo won the 2018 Graded stakes race, Grade II La Canada Stakes and placed in four Graded stakes race, Grade I stakes—the 2016 Starlet Stakes, 2017 La Brea Stakes, 2018 Santa Margarita Stakes, and 2019 Ogden Phipps Stakes. She was retired with a 3-5-6 record from 26 starts that included six other graded stakes performances with Earning of $876,090. Don Alberto bought Mopotism for $1.05 million during Fasig-Tipton's 2019 The November Sale out of Kingwood Farm's consignment. Journalism is the mare's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peacock (streaming Service)
Peacock is an American over-the-top subscription streaming service owned and operated by Comcast through its entertainment division NBCUniversal. Launched on July 15, 2020, the service primarily carries television shows and films from NBCUniversal brands and other third-party content providers, as well as original series, films, and specials. It is the main streaming outlet of the NBC Sports and Telemundo Deportes divisions, carrying simulcasts of specified events with NBC and Spanish sister network Telemundo, as well as sports broadcasts and supplemental coverage not carried on linear television. It also carries WWE professional wrestling content, including archive programming and live pay-per-view events. Peacock was initially offered in free, "Premium", and "Premium Plus" plans, with the free version offering a limited selection of content, and Premium Plus offering ad-free video on-demand content and streaming of NBC affiliates; since January 2023, the free tier i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Sports
NBC Sports is an American programming division for NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, that is responsible for sports broadcasts on their broadcast network NBC, the Cable television, cable channels NBC owns, and on Peacock (streaming service), Peacock. The division is officially owned and operated by NBCUniversal's subsidary NBC Sports Group. Formerly operating as "a service of NBC News", it broadcasts a diverse array of sports events, including Big East Conference, Big East basketball, Big Ten Conference, Big Ten football and basketball, NASCAR, the National Football League (NFL), Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, Notre Dame football, the Olympic Games, PGA Tour golf, the Premier League, the Tour de France, and Thoroughbred racing among others. With Comcast's Acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast, acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011, its own cable sports networks were aligned with NBC Sports into a part of the division known as the NBC Sports Group. History Early years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hill Gail
Hill Gail (April 19, 1949 – May 27, 1968) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. One of the leading American two-year-olds of 1951, Hill Gail recorded his most important success the following spring when he won the 1952 Kentucky Derby. He was injured during the race and was never as effective in his subsequent racing career. He was retired to stand as a breeding stallion in Ireland, where he had limited success as a sire. Background Hill Gail was a dark bay horse bred and raced by Calumet Farm of Lexington, Kentucky. He was sired by Champion sire Bull Lea out of Jane Gail, a successful but temperamental racemare described by her trainer Jimmy Jones as "a well-authenticated bitch". As a descendant of the broodmare St Angela, Jane Gail was distantly related to the British champion St. Simon and Orme. Hill Gail was trained by Ben Jones for races in the East while his son Jimmy handled the colt's conditioning in California. Racing career At age two, Hill Gail set a new Arlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Delight
Real Delight (1949–1969), was an American Thoroughbred race horse. Background She was bred by the famous Calumet Farm of Lexington, Kentucky. Her sire was one of America's foundation stallions, the influential Bull Lea (sire of seven Hall of Famers, including his other great daughters: Two Lea, Bewitch, and Twilight Tear). Her dam was the stakes-winning Blue Delight (10 wins out of 24 starts) out of Blue Larkspur, a racehorse Blood-Horse magazine considered number 100 in its list of the Twentieth Century's greatest racehorses. Real Delight was a huge, rangy filly, standing 17 hands. Throughout her second year, she was bothered by a bad knee and did not race as a two-year-old. A Calumet horse, she was trained by Hall of Famer Horace A. Jones. Horace had become the head trainer by the birth of Real Delight while his father, Ben A. Jones, became Calumet's general manager. Racing career At three, Real Delight won eleven of twelve starts. She began in combination races, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calumet Farm
Calumet Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Calumet is located in the heart of the Bluegrass, a well-known horse breeding region. Calumet Farm has a record history of Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown winners and 11 horses in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Horses Calumet Farm has produced ten Kentucky Derby winners, more than any other operation. The farm is also the leading breeder and owner of Preakness Stakes winners, with seven each. Two of the farm's colts have won the U.S. Triple Crown and three females the Triple Crown for fillies. Calumet Farm's winners of the Kentucky Derby are: Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944), Citation (1948), Ponder (sired by Pensive - 1949), Hill Gail (1952), Iron Liege (1957), Tim Tam (1958), Forward Pass (1968 by DQ), Strike the Gold (1991) and Rich Strike (2022). Two of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justify (horse)
Justify (born in March 28, 2015) is a National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, US Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who is known for being the thirteenth winner of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States), American Triple Crown. He also was the first horse since Apollo (horse), Apollo in 1882 to win the Kentucky Derby without racing as a two-year-old. Justify first attracted attention with a win in his debut race on February 18, 2018. He went on to win the 2018 Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby, the 2018 Preakness Stakes, Preakness Stakes and the 2018 Belmont Stakes, Belmont Stakes to become the 13th Triple Crown winner. He was retired, undefeated, several weeks after the Belmont and became the only American Triple Crown winner in history who was never beaten in his entire career. Justify's ancestors include Secretariat (horse), Secretariat, Count Fleet, War Admiral, Omaha (horse), Omaha, and Gallant Fox, all of whom also won the American Triple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple Crown Of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)
In the United States, the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, commonly known as the Triple Crown, is a series of horse races for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, consisting of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. The three races were inaugurated in different years, the last being the Kentucky Derby in 1875. The Triple Crown Trophy, commissioned in 1950 but awarded to all previous winners as well as those after 1950, is awarded to a horse who wins all three races and is thereafter designated as a Triple Crown winner. The races are traditionally run in May and early June of each year, although global events have resulted in schedule adjustments, such as in 1945 and 2020. The first winner of all three Triple Crown races was Sir Barton in 1919. Some journalists began using the term ''Triple Crown'' to refer to the three races as early as 1923, but it was not until Gallant Fox won the three events in 1930 that Charles Hatton (journalist), Charles Hatton of the ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
