150th Run For the Roses - The Kentucky Derby 2024

The 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby is scheduled to get underway at 6:57 p.m. EDT on Saturday, 4 May.  The annual "Run For the Roses" has a purse of $5,000,000 this year, and, as usual, the winner of this race is the only horse that might be able to win the Triple Crown.  Run at the Classic distance of 10 furlongs, 1 1/4 miles, each of the entries will carry 126 pounds on the first Saturday in May.  The field is limited to 20 entries, and there are two alternates "on stand by" this year in case of illness or injury.  The horses who are competing this year earned points in other races; with the two Japanese entries winning a specific race to earn the ability to race in the Derby.  Both of the colts representing Japan this year are paternal descendants of Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence.
   In the full field of 22, there is a single gray/roan, West Saratoga; two chestnuts, Society Man, and the alternate Mugatu; all others are bay or dark brown.  All of the entries are colts, except chestnut Society Man, who is a gelding.  All of the colts were bred in Kentucky, other than the two boys from Japan.  There are two stallions who are represented by two colts:  Good Magic sired Dornoch and Society Man; Justify sired Just a Touch and Just Steel.
   Besides having an entry in the Kentucky Oaks this year, D. Wayne Lukas has a colt in the Derby - Just Steel.  Trainer Danny Gargan has two entries: Dornoch and Society Man.  Chad Brown has two runners, also: Sierra Leone and Domestic Product.  With three entries, trainer Brad Cox will be running in the saddling enclosure, seeing Catching Freedom, Just a Touch, and Encino.
   Fierceness, who won the Breeders Cup Juvenile last year, is the morning line betting favorite - even though he's in post position 17.  The second betting choice is Sierra Leone, who earned the most points to enter the Derby.
Fierceness training at Churchill Downs on 26 April with jockey
John Velasquez in the irons.

   As usual, I will list information regarding the race first.  Then I will list Post Position, entry name, (in parentheses the number of entry points earned), morning line betting odds, sire, and dam.

Kentucky Derby  Purse: $5 million    Distance: 10 furlongs (1 1/4 miles)   Post Time: 6:57 p.m. EDT
    Each colt will carry 126 pounds.

1    Dornoch   (75)   20 to 1    Good Magic    Puca
2    Sierra Leone   (155)    3 to 1    Gun Runner    Heavenly Love
3    Mystik Dan   (46)    20 to 1    Goldencents    Ma'am
4    Catching Freedom   (125)    8 to 1    Constitution    Catch My Drift
5    Catalytic   (50)    30 to 1    Catalina Cruiser    One Show Only
6    Just Steel   (65)    20 to 1    Justify    Irish Lights
7    Honor Marie   (65)    20 to 1    Honor Code    Dame Marie
8    Just a Touch   (75)    10 to 1    Justify  Touching Beauty
9    Encino   (40)    20 to 1    Nyquist    Glittering Jewel
10  T O Password (JPN)  -   30 to 1    Copano Rickey (JPN)    T O Rachel (JPN)
11  Forever Young (JPN)  (100)   10 to 1    Real Steel (JPN)    Forever Darling
12  Track Phantom   (70)    20 to 1    Quality Road    Miss Sunset
13  West Saratoga   (67)    50 to 1    Exaggerator    Mo Wicked
14  Endlessly   (100)    30 to 1    Oscar Performance    Dream Fuhrever
15  Domestic Product   (60)    30 to 1    Practical Joke    Goods and Services
16  Grand Mo the First   (40)    50 to 1    Uncle Mo    Lilies So Fair
17  Fierceness   (136)    5 to 2    City of Light    Nonna Bella
18  Stronghold   (125)    20 to 1    Ghostzapper    Spectator
19  Resilience   (110)    20 to 1    Into Mischief    Meadowsweet
20  Society Man   (50)   50 to 1    Good Magic    You Cheated
    ***  The following two colts are alternate runners who are "on stand by"  in case any of the top 20 post position colts become ill or are injured prior to the race:
21  Epic Ride (35)      Blame    Pick a Time
22  Mugatu   ( 14 )      Blofeld    Union Way 

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