The favorite to take the 151st title is Journalism at 7/2. The horse, trained by Michael McCarthy and jockeyed by Umberto Rispoli, has won four of the five races in its career. Journalism won the Santa Anita Derby in April as well as the San Felipe Stakes in March.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – D. Wayne Lukas, a four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, sat in the front row. A few rows back sat seven-time winner Bob Baffert, in Louisville for his first Derby after a three-year ban. Across the aisle from Baffert, Michael McCarthy, trainer of this year’s favorite, Journalism, sat beside his daughter, Stella.