Once again it is the first Saturday in May and voilá, here is the Kentucky Derby horse race, held at the Churchill Downs track just a couple of blocks south of the University of Louisville. In the 2018 edition of this time-honored event that represents the first of the three-race Triple Crown for three-year-old thoroughbreds, there will be 20 entrants, with several horses bunched together as favorites and many more as longshots. At this writing the favorites, in general order of betting odds, are Justify, Mendelssohn, Magnum Moon, Audible, and Belt d'Oro. Sometimes I get a "feeling" about a name and that horse mysteriously wins...Tonality in the Belmont Stakes a few years ago was one such example. Magnum Moon is my choice this time around, based on complete ignorance and only a hunch...but it's all for fun! As for the horse with my favorite name, it's one of the longshots: Free Drop Billy...
The Kentucky Derby is supposedly slated for 6:46 pm and will get 2:30-7:30 coverage on NBC. I'll probably watch some of the prerace programming to get a better sense of the horses and to see any late changes in the lineup and odds. In any event I'm hoping that whichever horse wins this race will also win the Preakness, setting up yet another exciting Triple Crown scenario for the Belmont. We'll see...
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