Three horses come into the 2025 Kentucky Derby as clear favorites among the 20-horse field. Journalism, Sovereingty and Sandman are the only horses currently listed under 10-1 to take the first leg of the Triple Crown.

Only three of the 13 Triple Crown winners have been able to turn their genetics into a next-generation Kentucky Derby winner. The previous two Triple Crown winners, American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018),

Here we go again! America’s greatest handicapping puzzle, otherwise known as the Kentucky Derby, will take place on Saturday. As if it wasn’t enough of a challenge to pick winners in an average field, this is a race that complicates things exponentially. Looking at those complications one-by-one, it goes like this: