The Kentucky Derby

Matt Roush says...

Mint julep, anyone? In what has become the Super Bowl of horse racing, coverage of the first leg of the fabled Triple Crown begins early, with hours to fill before the “most exciting two minutes in sports,” whose posted start time isn’t until just before 7 pm/ET. It’s the pageantry and history at Louisville’s Churchill Downs that has drawn fans to the spectacle for more than a century and a half. Oddsmaker favorites include the well-named Renegade, Further Ado and Commandment, and whichever of these majestic beasts, front-runner or dark horse, is bedecked with roses and $3.1 million for its lucky owner, speculation begins whether they can repeat at the Preakness in two weeks (May 16) on the way to a historic and rarely achieved Triple Crown.

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