Kentucky Derby
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The Triple Crown
The Kentucky Derby is the first leg of the run for the Triple Crown, horse racing's greatest honor. To win the Triple Crown, a horse must first win the Kentucky Derby, then the Preakness Stakes, and then the Belmont Stakes.
The $5 million Visa Triple Crown Challenge is one of the largest payouts in sports and represents the supreme test of a Thoroughbred's speed and endurance - an achievement that has been accomplished by only eleven champions in its history.
2008 Kentucky Derby
Winner
Big Brown, overcoming the far outside post, rolled
to a five-length victory Saturday in the 134th running of the Kentucky
Derby at Churchill Downs. The three-year-old, unbeaten in four
career starts, can now become the first Triple Crown winner since
1978.
| Big Brown, the 2-1 favorite in the 20 horse
field, becomes the first winner of the Run for the Roses to
start from the 20-post since the starting gate has been used.
It also is the third Kentucky Derby win for jockey Kent
Desormeaux who previously captured the race in 1998 with Real
Quiet and with Fusaichi Pegasus two years later.
Big Brown
returned $6.80, $5.00 and $4.80. Eight Belles paid $10.60 and
6.40, and Denis of Cork paid $11.60 to show. |
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Big Brown was coming into the Run for the Roses off
a wire-to-wire victory in the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park. The
Kentucky Derby triumph was worth $1.4 million to bring Big Brown's
lifetime earnings to more than $2 million.
The colt is expected to start in the Preakness Stakes on May 17 at
Pimlico, where he should be a prohibitive favorite. The third leg
in racing's Triple Crown is the Belmont Stakes which will be
conducted on June 7 at Belmont Park.
Kentucky Derby Winners
 The winners of the Kentucky Derby are a literal who's who of horse racing including such notables as (2007) Street Sense, (2006) Barbaro, (2005) Giacomo, (2004) Smarty Jones, Funny Cide (2003), War Emblem (2002), Charismatic (1999), Sunday Silence (1989), Alysheba (1987), Ferdinand (1986), Affirmed (1978), Seattle Slew (1977), Secretariat (1973), Citation (1948), Assault (1946), Count Fleet (1943), Whirlaway (1941), War Admiral (1937), Omaha (1935), Gallant Fox (1930), Sir Barton (1919), and many more.
In 2008 you will be able to bet on the Kentucky Derby with our recommended race books that offers online betting on Kentucky Derby horse racing odds.
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Giacomo pulls a shocker in the 131st Kentucky Derby, rallying on the far outside under jockey Mike Smith to outfinish fellow longshot Closing Argument and Afleet Alex, hitting the wire in 2:02.75. The win by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Moss' Giacomo produced the second largest win payoff in Kentucky Derby history, returning a generous $102.60. |
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