The 151st run of the Kentucky Derby was held Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Mystik Dan won last year's championship with 18-1 odds. Will there be greater frustration this weekend (such as the 80-1 wealth blow in 2022)?

Follow the live coverage of Kentucky Derby

NBC Sports will provide coverage of 15 games starting Friday and bring you to the Derby.

Here's what you need to know:

How to watch the 2025 Kentucky Derby

date: Saturday, May 3

Real-time reporting time: Begins at 2:30 PM ET

Postal hours in Kentucky Derby: 6:57 pm

Where: Churchill Towns of Louisville, Kentucky

TV network: NBC

flow: Peacock, NBCSPORTS.COM, NBC SPORTS APP

Basic knowledge

WHO: 20 3-year-old horses

wallet: $5 million

distance: 1¼ mile

Note: Rodriguez (No. 4) and Grande (No. 10) were both scratched before the game. Here are the updated post locations.

Bull No. 1 (20-1)

• Jockey: Martin Garcia | Trainer: Bob Baffert
• Career Highlights: Winning the 2024 Breeders Cup Teenager
• Fun fact: This will be Garcia's fifth derby. His best result was third in Dortmund in 2015.

No. 2 Neequo (30-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Pratt | Trainer: Saffie Joseph, Little.
• Career Highlights: Ranked No. 3 in the Fountain of Youth Betting
• Fun fact: Breeding in Florida, the new Equos tries to become Florida's seventh horse to win the Kentucky Derby. The last one is the silver charm of 1997.

No. 3 final gambit (30-1)

• Jockey: Luan Machado | Trainer: Brad H. Cox
• Career Highlights: Winning the 2025 Jeff Ruby Steak
• Fun fact: The Kentucky Derby will be Gambit’s first game on the dirt.

US No. 5 US Promise (30-1)

• Jockey: Nik Juarez | Trainer: D. WayneLukas
• Career Highlights: Winning the 2025 Virginia Derby
• Interesting fact: The term “U.S. commitment” is also related to the few moments leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Appreciate Daytona No. 6 (30-1)

• Jockey: Christophe Lemaire | Coach: Yukihiro Kato
• Career Highlights: Winning the UAE Derby
• Fun fact: UAE Derby won the fourth consecutive match.

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Luxor Cafe No. 7 (15-1)

• Jockey: TBA | Trainer: Noriyuki Hori
• Highlights of the competition: Winning the 2025 Fukuri Stock
• Fun fact: Luxor Cafe won three games in Japan to qualify for the Kentucky Derby. The trainer and horse are in their first match outside Japan.

News No. 8 (3-1)

• Jockey: Umberto Rispoli | Trainer: Mike McCarthy
• Career Highlights: Winning the 2025 Santa Anita Derby
• Fun fact: Curlin (the father of journalism) won the winners of Preakness, Belmont Stakes and Breeders Cup Classic, but not the Kentucky Derby.

Burnham Square No. 9 (12-1)

• Jockey: Brian T. Hernandez, Jr. | Trainer: Ian R. Wilkes
• Career Highlights: Winning the Bluegrass Bet in 2025
• Fun fact: Burnham Square's grandfather was the 1990 Derby champion.

Flying Mohawks No. 11 (30-1)

• Jockey: Joseph Ramos | Trainer: D. WhitworthBeckman
• Career Highlights: The Second Jeff Ruby Steak in 2025
• Fun fact: The Kentucky Derby will play dirt on Mohawk.

No. 12 East Street (20-1)

• Jockey: Luan Machado | Trainer: Brendan P. Walsh
• Career Highlights: Bluegrass Bet 2025
• Fun fact: East Avenue's father, Medaglia D'Oro, played in all three triple-champions in 2002, ranked fourth in the Kentucky Derby, eighth in Preakness and second in Belmont.

Publisher No. 13 (20-1)

• Jockey: Flavia Prat | Trainer: Steven M. Asmussen
• Career Highlights: No. 2 in the Arkansas Derby
• Fun fact: Asmussen is the most winning coach of all time, amassing over 10,000 wins in the coaching team.

Tiztastic No. 14 (20-1)

• Jockey: Joel Rosario | Trainer: Steven M. Asmussen
• Career Highlights: Winning the 2025 Louisiana Derby
• Fun fact: Asmussen's father and his two sons are both jockeys.

Rendering Judgment No. 15 (30-1)

• Jockey: Julien Leparoux | Trainer: Kenneth G. McPeek
• Career Highlights: Ranked 5th in Bluegrass Bet
• Fun fact: The Kentucky Derby will be Leparoux's first ride on rendering judgments.

Coal War No. 16 (30-1)

• Jockey: Juan P. Vargas | Trainer: Lonnie Briley
• Career Highlights: Winning the 2025 Rebel Bet
• Fun facts: Coal Wars’ parents, Coal Front and Wolf Blade are descendants of Seattle Slew.

No. 17 Sandman (6-1)

• Jockey: Jose L. Ortiz | Trainer: Mark Casse
• Career Highlights: Winning the 2025 Arkansas Derby
• Fun fact: Tapit (Sandman's Sire) is the first in the lifetime 1st grade champion and is the historically leading father of the graduate.

Sovereignty No. 18 (5-1)

• Jockey: Manuel Franco | Trainer: William I. Mott
• Career Highlights: Winning the 2025 Youth Fountain
• Fun fact: Mott is a resilience coach who ranked sixth in Derby last year.

Gold No. 19 (30-1)

• Jockey: Jareth Loveberry | Trainer: Ethan W. West
• Career Highlights: Louisiana Derby 2025
• Fun fact: This is Loveberry's second derby trip. He rode two Phils to second in 2023.

No. 20 Irving All-Around (30-1)

• Jockey: TBA | Trainer: Brian Lynch
• Career Highlights: Winning the Tampa Bay Derby with the second fastest time in game history.
• Fun fact: Irad Ortiz Jr. Rode Owen is all-around in Tampa, but for Derby, that's a problem.

No. 21 Baeza (12-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Pratt | Trainer: John A. Shirreffs
• Career Highlights: Ranked No. 2 in the Santa Anita Derby
• Fun fact: Baeza bought it for $1.2 million at the 2023 Keeneland September 1-year-old auction.