Golden Tempo won the 152nd Kentucky Derby in thrilling fashion after making a late push down the home stretch. Cherie DeVaux became the first female trainer to win the Derby.
Relive everything from the historic race in our blog below.
2026 Kentucky Derby Horses and Pole Positions
One of the biggest stars of this year's race is not even on premises. Into Mischief, a horse that hasn't raced since 2008, has his horseshoe prints all over the Derby having sired three of the last six winners with three more offspring and another grandsire in this year's race.
Here's the full list of horses in this year's race as of Saturday morning.
| POST | HORSE | JOCKEY |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renegade | Irad Ortiz Jr. |
| 2 | Albus | Manny Franco |
| 3 | Intrepido | Hector Berrios |
| 4 | Litmus Test | Martin Garica |
| 6 | Commandment | Luis Saez |
| 7 | Danon Bourbon | Atsuya Nishimura |
| 8 | So Happy | Mike Smith |
| 10 | Wonder Dean | Ryusei Sakai |
| 11 | Incredibolt | Jaime Torres |
| 12 | Chief Wallabee | Junior Alvarado |
| 14 | Potente | Juan Hernandez |
| 15 | Emerging Market | Flavien Prat |
| 16 | Pavlovian | Edwin Maldonado |
| 17 | Six Speed | Brian Hernandez Jr. |
| 18 | Further Ado | John Velasquez |
| 19 | Golden Tempo | Jose Ortiz |
| 21 | Great White | Alex Achard |
| 22 | Ocelli | Joe Ramos |
| 23 | Robusto | Emisael Jaramillo |
2026 Kentucky Derby Scratches
No. 13 Silent Tactic and No. 20 Fulleffort were scratched earlier this week. No. 5 Right to Party was scratched on Friday and No. 9 The Puma was scratched on Saturday morning. The field is now down to 19.
How to Watch the Kentucky Derby
Post time is 6:57 p.m. ET. Coverage starts on NBC at 2:30 p.m. ET and Peacock started streaming from Churchill Downs at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Kentucky Derby Betting Picks
Sports Illustrated's Pat Forde broke down how he thinks you should spend $100 betting on this year's race. SI's Brian Giuffra also did some handicapping.
If you're looking for something a little less traditional, here's a trifecta of NBC's early 2000's Must See TV Thursday night lineup references:
Start with Pavlovian (52/1) while you remember Jim offering Dwight a mint whenever he rebooted his computer on The Office. Then in a tribute to Community, bet on Great White (29/1), which Jack Donaghy compared himself to while saying Liz Lemon was a remora. Finally, hope that a video of a Dalmatian man doesn't awaken anything in you like it did in Dean Craig Pelton on Community while you finish the bet with Wonder Dean (20/1).
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