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No. 1 Citizen Bull (20-1)

• Jockey: Martin Garcia | Trainer: Bob Baffert
• Career Highlight: Won the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
• Fun Fact: This will be Garcia’s fifth Derby. His best finish was third in 2015 aboard Dortmund.

No. 2 Neoequos (30-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Pratt | Trainer: Saffie Joseph Jr.
• Career Highlight: Finished third in the Fountain of Youth Stakes
• Fun Fact: Bred in Florida, Neoequos is attempting to become the seventh horse bred in Florida to win the Kentucky Derby. The last was Silver Charm in 1997.

No. 3 Final Gambit (30-1)

• Jockey: Luan Machado | Trainer: Brad H. Cox
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Jeff Ruby Steaks
• Fun Fact: The Kentucky Derby will be Final Gambit’s first race on dirt.

No. 5 American Promise (30-1)

• Jockey: Nik Juarez | Trainer: D. Wayne Lukas
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Virginia Derby
• Fun Fact: The phrase “American Promise” is also associated with a handful of moments leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

No. 6 Admire Daytona (30-1)

• Jockey: Christophe Lemaire | Trainer: Yukihiro Kato
• Career Highlight: Won the UAE Derby
• Fun Fact: The UAE Derby was the fourth consecutive time a Japan-bred horse has won the race.

No. 7 Luxor Cafe (15-1)

• Jockey: TBA | Trainer: Noriyuki Hori
• Race Highlight: Won the 2025 Fukuryu Stakes
• Fun Fact: Luxor Cafe won three stakes races in Japan to qualify for the Kentucky Derby. Trainer and horse are making their first starts outside of Japan.

No. 8 Journalism (3-1)

• Jockey: Umberto Rispoli | Trainer: Mike McCarthy
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Santa Anita Derby
• Fun Fact: Curlin (Journalism’s sire) has sired winners of the Preakness, Belmont Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Classic, but not the Kentucky Derby.

No. 9 Burnham Square (12-1)

• Jockey: Brian T. Hernandez, Jr. | Trainer: Ian R. Wilkes
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Blue Grass Stakes
• Fun Fact: Burnham Square’s grandfather is the 1990 Derby winner Unbridled.

No. 11 Flying Mohawk (30-1)

• Jockey: Joseph D. Ramos | Trainer: D. Whitworth Beckman
• Career Highlight: Second in the 2025 Jeff Ruby Steaks
• Fun Fact: The Kentucky Derby will be Flying Mohawk’s first race on dirt.

No. 12 East Avenue (20-1)

• Jockey: Luan Machado | Trainer: Brendan P. Walsh
• Career Highlight: Second in the 2025 Blue Grass Stakes
• Fun Fact: Medaglia d’Oro, East Avenue’s sire, raced in all three Triple Crown races in 2002, finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby, eighth in the Preakness and second in the Belmont.

No. 13 Publisher (20-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Prat | Trainer: Steven M. Asmussen
• Career Highlight: Finished second in the Arkansas Derby
• Fun Fact: Asmussen is the winningest trainer of all-time, amassing over 10,000 victories as a trainer.

No. 14 Tiztastic (20-1)

• Jockey: Joel Rosario | Trainer: Steven M. Asmussen
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Louisiana Derby
• Fun Fact: Asmussen’s father was a jockey, as are his two sons.

No. 15 Render Judgement (30-1)

• Jockey: Julien Leparoux | Trainer: Kenneth G. McPeek
• Career Highlight: Finished fifth in the Blue Grass Stakes
• Fun Fact: The Kentucky Derby will be Leparoux’s first ride on Render Judgement.

No. 16 Coal Battle (30-1)

• Jockey: Juan P. Vargas | Trainer: Lonnie Briley
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Rebel Stakes
• Fun Fact: Coal Battle’s parents, Coal Front and Wolfblade, are descendants of Seattle Slew.

No. 17 Sandman (6-1)

• Jockey: Jose L. Ortiz | Trainer: Mark Casse
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Arkansas Derby
• Fun Fact: Tapit (Sandman’s sire) is the No. 1 active sire by lifetime Grade 1 winners, and the all-time leading sire by earnings.

No. 18 Sovereignty (5-1)

• Jockey: Manuel Franco | Trainer: William I. Mott
• Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Fountain of Youth
• Fun Fact: Mott was the trainer of Resilience, who finished sixth in the Derby last year.

No. 19 Chunk of Gold (30-1)

• Jockey: Jareth Loveberry | Trainer: Ethan W. West
• Career Highlight: Placed second at the 2025 Louisiana Derby
• Fun Fact: This is Loveberry’s second Derby ride. He rode Two Phil’s to a second-place finish in 2023.

No. 20 Owen Almighty (30-1)

• Jockey: TBA | Trainer: Brian Lynch
• Career Highlight: Won the Tampa Bay Derby with the second-fastest time in the history of the race.
• Fun Fact: Irad Ortiz Jr. rode Owen Almighty at Tampa, but the ride is in question for the Derby.

No. 21 Baeza (12-1)

• Jockey: Flavien Pratt | Trainer: John A. Shirreffs
• Career Highlight: Placed second in the Santa Anita Derby
• Fun Fact: Baeza was purchased for $1.2 million at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.