Kentucky Derby Schedule 2019: Race Start Time, TV Coverage and Live-Stream
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2019 Kentucky Derby: How to Watch Live Wherever You Are It is getting close to one of the best times in sports history. Its almost time for the Kentucky Derby. What is the Kentucky Derby one might ask, it is a major horse race, that is part of the Triple Crown horse racing series. The Kentucky Derby is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky. It also called the “Run for the Roses”. It is the first leg of the Triple Crown horse racing event. It began in 1875 and people from all over the country come here every year to celebrate this great event. The celebrities come out in drone too.
The 145th installment of the Kentucky Derby is just a day away now, and it's really anyone's race.
As the first race in the pursuit of a Triple Crown, the winner of the Derby will look to grab wins at the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes in the weeks after. Last year's Derby winner, Justify, was the second horse to pull off the trifecta—following American Pharaoh in 2015—in the last 40 years.
A lot has happened in the days leading up to the Run for the Roses.
Omaha Beach, the favorite to win the race, was scratched from the running on Wednesday due to an entrapped epiglottis, which causes breathing difficulties.Jockey Mike Smith, winner of the Triple Crown last year with Justify, will now be sidelined from the Derby after choosing to ride Omaha Beach over Bob Baffler's Roadster. Game Winner takes the top spot in Omaha Beach's absence because of his impressive victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in 2018. The horse was also unanimously named the champion two-year-old male last year, according to ESPN.
Award-winning trainer Baffler is looking to capture his sixth Derby title after having his horse Justify take the Triple Crown last year, just two year's after his horse American Pharaoh did the same.
The trainer's chances of capturing another Roses title bodes well, as the top three horses are all his. If he did, he would tie Ben Stones for the most Derby wins by a trainer.
Improbable notched a win at the Street Sense Stakes on the under card for the Breeders' Cup. Roadster also came away with a victory over Game Winner in the Santa Anita Derby. However, after drawing slot 17, Roadster will have to overcome the "Curse of the 17 Post"—no horse has ever won the Derby from that position.
