2024 KENTUCKY DERBY CONTENDERS LINEUP

Early News for the 2024 Kentucky Derby Lineup

The 2024 Kentucky Derby is heating up with major prep races shaping the leaderboard. Timberlake currently leads with 66 points after winning the Rebel Stakes, closely followed by Dornoch with 60 points from the Fountain of Youth Stakes victory. Sierra Leone, Track Phantom, and Deterministic are also in the top 5, marking themselves as strong contenders. Recent winners include Fierceness at the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Otto the Conqueror in the Remington Springboard Mile. The Tampa Bay Derby, Louisiana Derby, and Jeff Ruby Steaks are upcoming critical races in March, promising to further define the standings and potential Derby favorite​. Horse racing experts at FanDuel Racing will be following along with the action on the Road the Kentucky Derby, offering their insights, analysis, and Kentucky Derby news for each of the prep races.

2024 Kentucky Derby Odds

One of the core questions when you are betting is whether you are getting the right odds to play your horse. Odds in the Kentucky Derby work the same way as with other horse races in the United States: they are pari-mutuel odds. This means that the odds are based on how the public is wagering. If bettors on the whole put more money on a horse, the horse is a favorite and the odds are lower. If bettors put less money on a horse, that horse is a long shot, and the odds will be higher.

When the Kentucky Derby is drawn, Churchill Downs will release a morning line. That morning line will be an educated estimate of what the odds will be on race day, though it will not be a guarantee of odds. Betting on the Kentucky Derby opens at 9:00 a.m. EDT on the day before the Kentucky Derby. Through that Friday and Saturday, bettors can watch the odds fluctuate based on the wagers coming in before the race. Final odds are determined by how much has been bet on each horse once the gates fling open.

2024 Kentucky Derby Odds
Horse	Trainer	Current Odds
Be You	Todd Pletcher	90-1
Catalytic	Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.	50-1
Catching Freedom	Brad Cox	8-1
Common Defense	Kenny McPeek	80-1
Deterministic	Christophe Clement	15-1
Domestic Product	Chad Brown	40-1
Dornoch	Danny Gargan	12-1
El Grande O	Lind Rice	50-1
Encino	Brad Cox	50-1
Endlessly	Michael W. McCarthy	40-1
Epic Ride	John Ennis	60-1
Evening News	Michael V. Pino	99-1
Fierceness	Todd Pletcher	2-1
Forever Young (JPN)	Yoshito Yahagi	10-1
Good Money	Chad C. Brown	90-1
Grand Mo the First	Victor Barboza, Jr.	99-1
Hades	Joe Orseno	50-1
Honor Marie	D. Whitworth Beckman	20-1
Just a Touch	Brad Cox	30-1
Just Steel	D. Wayne Lukas	25-1
Lat Long	Kenny McPeek	90-1
Mc Vay	Jack W. Davison	99-1
Merit	Jack W. Davison	99-1
Mystik Dan	Kenny McPeek	30-1
No More Time	Jose Francisco D'Angelo	90-1
Resilience	William I. Mott	99-1
Seize the Grey	D. Wayne Lukas	50-1
Sierra Leone	Chad Brown	6-1
Society Man	Danny Gargan	99-1
Stronghold	Philip D'Amato	60-1
T O Password (JPN)	Daisuke Takayanagi	60-1
Tapalo	John W. Sadler	90-1
Tessuto	George Papaprodromou	99-1
Timberlake	Brad Cox	30-1
Top Conor	Chad Brown	80-1
Track Phantom	Steve Asmussen	30-1
Tuscan Sky	Todd Pletcher	30-1
Uncle Heavy	Robert E. Reid Jr.	50-1
West Saratoga	Larry W. Demeritte	60-1
All Other 3 Year Olds	#N/A	30-1

KENTUCKY DERBY LEADERBOARD

Last Update: April 9th 2024 8:00am EST

As the Kentucky Derby approaches, the ranking order may change. Stay informed by monitoring the rankings and familiarizing yourself with the top contenders. The current standings are as follows:

Rank	Horse	Points	Trainer
1	Sierra Leone	155	Chad C. Brown
2	Fierceness	136	Todd A. Pletcher
3	Catching Freedom	125	Brad H. Cox
4	Stronghold	125	Philip D'Amato
5	Resilience	110	William I. Mott
6	Forever Young	100	Yoshito Yahagi
7	Endlessly	100	Michael W. McCarthy
8	Dornoch	75	Danny Gargan
9	Just a Touch	75	Brad H. Cox
10	Track Phantom	70	Steven M. Asmussen
11	West Saratoga	67	Larry W. Demeritte
12	Just Steel	65	D. Wayne Lukas
13	Honor Marie	65	D. Whitworth Beckman
14	Domestic Product	60	Chad C. Brown
15	Catalytic	50	Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.
16	Deterministic	50	Christophe Clement
17	Society Man	50	Danny Gargan
18	Mystik Dan	46	Kenneth G. McPeek
19	No More Time	45	Jose Francisco D'Angelo
20	Grand Mo the First	40	Victor Barboza, Jr.

How to Bet the Kentucky Derby

One of the core questions when you are betting is whether you are getting the right odds to play your horse. Odds in the Kentucky Derby work the same way as with other horse races in the United States: they are pari-mutuel odds. This means that the odds are based on how the public is wagering. If bettors on the whole put more money on a horse, the horse is a favorite and the odds are lower. If bettors put less money on a horse, that horse is a long shot, and the odds will be higher.

If you want to keep things simple, you can play a straight wager: win, place, or show. Win wagers pay off if your horse wins. A place wager usually pays less than a win bet, but it pays if your horse finishes in the top two. A show usually pays less than a place wager, but you win if your horse finishes first, second, or third. It is a $2 minimum bet for win, place, and show wagers on the Kentucky Derby.

You can also play a multitude of exotic wagers on the Kentucky Derby. Exotics require you to either pick the first several horses across the wire (vertical wagers) or pick the winners of multiple races (horizontal wagers)

Vertical exotic options for the Kentucky Derby include an exacta, trifecta, superfecta, and Super High Five. These require you to pick the first two, three, four, or five horses across the wire, respectively. For an exacta, it is a $2 minimum bet on a single combination, though you can play multiple combinations for as low as $1 per combination. The trifecta is a $0.50 minimum bet. For the Kentucky Derby, both the superfecta and Super High Five have a $1 minimum.

Horizontal options include the Daily Double, Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5, and Pick 6. The Daily Double has a $1 minimum. Pick 3, Pick 4, and Pick 5 have a $0.50 minimum, while you can bet a Pick 6 for just $0.20 per combination. In addition to traditional horizontal sequences, Churchill Downs offers special sequences with other major stakes races. Special sequences they have offered in recent years include:

•  A $1.00 Daily Double with the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby

•  A $0.50 Pick 3 with the Kentucky Oaks, Turf Classic, and Kentucky Derby

•  A $0.50 all-dirt-stakes Pick 5

When selecting a horse to wager on, there are many elements to consider: the weather condition on race day, their performance in the prep races, the results of trainers and jockeys in the Kentucky Derby in prior years, and the horses' form at Churchill Downs. Analyzing these components and staying up to date with the most recent racing updates will ensure you make the best bet.

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