2026 Kentucky Derby guide: Date, location, time, TV channels, betting favorites and more - BERITAJA

The hunt for equine racing's Triple Crown originates Saturday pinch the 152nd moving of the Kentucky Derby successful Louisville, Kentucky.

This year, the section of 3-year-old horses aren't the only ones drafting attention. Trainer Bob Baffert, whose horses person won the Kentucky Derby a record-tying six times, will person 2 horses successful the section arsenic he tries to go the race's all-time winningest trainer.

NBC Sports will supply sum of the Derby each Saturday.

How to watch the 2026 Kentucky Derby

Date: Saturday, May 2

Live sum time: Begins astatine 12 p.m. ET connected Peacock and continues connected NBC and Peacock astatine 2:30 p.m.

Post clip for Kentucky Derby: 6:57 p.m. ET

Where: Churchill Downs successful Louisville, Kentucky

TV Network: NBC

Streaming: Peacock

The essentials

Who: 20 3-year-old horses

Purse: $5 cardinal ($3.1 cardinal for first place)

Distance: 1¼ miles

Post positions pinch likelihood via NBC Sports

No. 1 Renegade (4-1)

• Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr. | Trainer: Todd Pletcher
• Career Highlight: The odds-on favourite to triumph won this year's Arkansas Derby and Sam F Davis Stakes.
• Fun Fact: A Kentucky Derby victor hasn't travel from the first position since 1986. But Renegade is trained by a two-time Derby victor successful Pletcher.

No. 2 Albus (30-1)

• Jockey: Manny Franco | Trainer: Riley Mott
• Career Highlight: Winning astatine Tampa Bay Downs connected Feb. 27, and astatine Aqueduct connected April 4.
• Fun Fact: Riley Mott is competing successful the aforesaid title arsenic his father, trainer Bill Mott. On its mother's side, is related to past year's winner, Sovereignty.

No. 3 Intrepido (50-1)

• Jockey: Hector I. Berrios | Trainer: Jeff Mullins
• Career Highlight: Won the 1 1/16th-mile American Pharaoh Stakes successful October.
• Fun Fact: Comes into the Derby aft losing by a immense margin, 10 lengths, successful the Santa Anita Derby connected April 4.

No. 4 Litmus Test (50-1)

• Jockey: Martin Garcia | Trainer: Bob Baffert
• Career Highlight: Won the Los Alamitos Futurity successful the fall.
• Fun Fact: Litmus Test's father, Nyquist, was erstwhile named Horse of the Year.

No. 6 Commandment (6-1)

• Jockey: Luis Saez | Trainer: Brad Cox
• Career Highlight: Has won its past 4 races, including astatine the Florida Derby, and has much than $1 cardinal successful profession earnings.
• Fun Fact: Cox has 2 horses successful this race, on pinch Further Ado, and about had 3 until Fulleffort scratched.

No. 7 Danon Bourbon (20-1)

• Jockey: Atsuya Nishimura | Trainer: Manabu Ikezoe
• Career Highlight: Has won each 3 profession races. But because each of those races took spot successful Japan, the equine has only raced connected correct hand-turning tracks.
• Fun Fact: Though calved successful Kentucky, Danon Bourbon raced exclusively successful Japan, and a Japan-based equine has ne'er won the Kentucky Derby.

No. 8 So Happy (15-1)

• Jockey: Mike Smith | Trainer: Mark Glatt
• Career Highlight: Winning the Santa Anita Derby by 2 3/4 lengths, 1 of 3 races it has won successful 4 profession starts.
• Fun Fact: Smith rode Justify to the 2018 Kentucky Derby victory.

No. 9 The Puma (10-1)

The Puma training astatine Churchill Downs connected Wednesday. Michael Reaves / Getty Images

• Jockey: Javier Castellano | Trainer: Gustavo Delgado
• Career Highlight: Finished 2nd successful the Florida Derby. A bully omen? Mage and Sovereignty besides vanished 2nd successful the aforesaid title earlier going connected to triumph the Kentucky Derby.
• Fun Fact: Delgado was the trainer for Mage, and Castellano its rider, erstwhile the equine won this title successful 2023.

No. 10 Wonder Dean (30-1)

• Jockey: Ryusei Sakai | Trainer: Daisuke Takayanagi
• Career Highlight: Winner of the UAE Derby.
• Fun Fact: The only equine successful the section calved successful Japan.

No. 11 Incredibolt (20-1)

• Jockey: Jaime Torres | Trainer: Riley Mott
• Career Highlight: Won the Virginia Derby.
• Fun Fact: Won 2 races astatine Churchill Downs successful the fall, but could this equine triumph aft not racing for the past 7 weeks?

No. 12 Chief Wallabee (8-1)

• Jockey: Junior Alvarado | Trainer: Bill Mott
• Career Highlight: Has won once, astatine Gulfstream Park, and took 2nd successful a stakes title astatine the aforesaid track.
• Fun Fact: Alvarado rode Sovereignty to the triumph successful the 2025 Kentucky Derby. Mott has trained 2 winners since 2019 successful Country House and 2025's Sovereignty.

No. 14 Potente (20-1)

• Jockey: Juan Hernandez | Trainer: Bob Baffert
• Career Highlight: Has won 2 of its 3 races, astatine Santa Anita Park connected Jan. 31 and astatine the aforesaid venue connected March 7. Faded to 2nd astatine the Santa Anita Derby.
• Fun Fact: Both Potente and Commandment stock the aforesaid sire, Into Mischief.

No. 15 Emerging Market (15-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Prat | Trainer: Chad Brown
• Career Highlight: Has won some its profession races.
• Fun Fact: Enters pinch the fewest starts (2) of immoderate equine successful the field. Prat rode Country House to the 2019 triumph aft a disqualification. Brown has trained 2 past Derby runners-up.

No. 16 Pavlovian (30-1)

• Jockey: Edwin Maldonado | Trainer: Doug O’Neill
• Career Highlight: Its results improved dramatically aft wearing blinkers, including a triumph successful the Sunland Derby.
• Fun Fact: Has acquisition connected its side. Not only does Pavlovian participate pinch the about starts (10), its proprietor and trainer person doubly won the Derby together.

No. 17 Six Speed (50-1)

• Jockey: Brian Hernandez Jr. | Trainer: Bhupat Seemar
• Career Highlight: Owns 3 wins, pinch the past coming March 28, successful 5 starts.
• Fun Fact: Known arsenic rather a accelerated horse. Hernandez has ridden the winning equine once, successful 2024 pinch Mystik Dan.

No. 18 Further Ado (6-1)

• Jockey: John Velazquez | Trainer: Brad Cox
• Career Highlight: Has earned $1.1 cardinal successful net successful six starts.
• Fun Fact: Further Ado has the highest top-end velocity of immoderate equine successful the field, according to some the Beyer Speed Figures and Brisnet Speed Ratings. Velazquez has been the winning jockey successful 2011, 2017 and 2020.

No. 19 Golden Tempo (30-1)

• Jockey: Jose Ortiz | Trainer: Cherie DeVaux
• Career Highlight: Has raced 4 times, winning twice.
• Fun Fact: Tempo's father, Curlin, has sired 3 past Derby runners-up (Exaggerator, Good Magic, Journalism).

No. 21 Great White (50-1)

• Jockey: Alex Achard | Trainer: John Ennis
• Career Highlight: Great White has won 2 races but some were connected synthetic tracks alternatively of ungraded the benignant it will tally connected astatine Churchill Downs.
• Fun Fact: Did not officially subordinate the Derby section until Wednesday, aft Silent Tactic's scratch.

No. 22 Ocelli (50-1)

• Jockey: Joseph Ramos | Trainer: D. Whitworth Beckman
• Career Highlight: Finished 3rd successful the high-profile Wood Memorial, but has yet to nutrient a triumph successful six starts.
• Fun Fact: Joined the section Thursday aft Fulleffort was scratched pursuing an X-ray showing a spot and fluid successful Fulleffort's near hind ankle.
• No. 23 Robusta (50-1)

• Jockey: Cristian Torres | Trainer: Doug O'Neill
• Career Highlight: Has raced 4 times, each astatine Santa Anita Park connected dirt. Robusta won its first title successful January.
• Fun Fact: Joined the section Friday aft Right to Party was scratched. This will beryllium the first Kentucky Derby thrust for Torres, who had been group to thrust Silent Tactic this week until Tactic was scratched. Now, acknowledgment to different scratch, Robusta (and Torres) are successful the race.