Todd Pletcher is an award-winning trainer who will try to make history when the 2025 Kentucky Derby gets underway on Saturday. Pletcher is a two-time Kentucky Derby winner, having horses win the Run of the Roses in 2010 and 2016.

Three horses come into the 2025 Kentucky Derby as clear favorites among the 20-horse field. Journalism, Sovereingty and Sandman are the only horses currently listed under 10-1 to take the first leg of the Triple Crown.

Here we go again! America’s greatest handicapping puzzle, otherwise known as the Kentucky Derby, will take place on Saturday. As if it wasn’t enough of a challenge to pick winners in an average field, this is a race that complicates things exponentially. Looking at those complications one-by-one, it goes like this: