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The 2026 edition marks the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The Derby is set for May 2 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (Brian Simms\/Lexington Herald-Leader\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) <\/p>\n
The Kentucky Derby race is on Saturday at Churchill Downs.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what to know about the race this year:\u00a0<\/p>\n
What time is the Kentucky Derby?\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Timeline:<\/p>\n
Post time is 6:57 p.m. EDT Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How to watch the Kentucky Derby <\/p>\n
Big picture view:<\/p>\n
The Kentucky Derby will be shown on NBC and Peacock.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Live coverage begins at 12 p.m. ET on Peacock and continues on NBC and Peacock at 2:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kentucky Derby horses <\/p>\n
Post positions:<\/p>\n
The Kentucky Derby shared on social media the post positions<\/a> for the 19 horses running:\u00a0<\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n The race will be run with 19 horses instead of the maximum 20 after a late scratch less than 12 hours before the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The Puma was ruled out Saturday because of a swollen leg from a skin infection.<\/p>\n Bob Baffert Kentucky Derby horses <\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n Trainer Bob Baffert, 73, whose horses have won the Kentucky Derby a record-tying six times, will have two horses in the field as he tries to break the record for a seventh win.\u00a0<\/p>\n His horses are:\u00a0<\/p>\n Litmus Test (50-1, post position 4)Potente (20-1, post position 14) <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Baffert did win his seventh title back in 2021 with Medina Spirit, but it was taken away by Churchill Downs when the horse failed a drug test. He served a three-year suspension and returned last year with another two horses.\u00a0<\/p>\n Medina Spirit tested positive for betamethasone, a steroid which is legal as a therapeutic in Kentucky but not allowed in a horse\u2019s system on race day. Baffert said he and his lawyers attempted to explain that Medina Spirit had been treated with a topical ointment containing the steroid for a skin inflammation.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article was taken from Kentucky Derby\u2019s social media, NBC and The Associated Press. This story was reported from Detroit.<\/p>\n Sports<\/a>Kentucky<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The 2026 edition marks the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The Derby is set for May…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43145,115,110,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-255529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-ky","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}