Sitting proudly among the top horse races in the world and affectionately known as the Run for the Roses, the Grade One Kentucky Derby is the first leg of the Triple Crown of horse racing.

The the 152nd renewal of "fastest two minutes in sports" takes place on Saturday, May 2 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky and below you will see information relating to each of the 2026 entries.

Renegade Draws Rail as 4-1 Favorite for 152nd Kentucky Derby

Renegade (Robert and Lawana Low and Repole Stables) has been installed as the 4-1 morning line favorite in a field of 20 plus four also-eligibles for the 152nd running of the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1)on Saturday, May 2.

The 1 ¼-mile classic headlines a 14-race program beginning at 11 a.m. (all times Eastern) with the Derby going as the 12th race with a 6:57 p.m. post time. The winner will receive $3.1 million.

Trained by two-time Kentucky Derby winner Todd Pletcher, Renegade has posted two overpowering victories in his 2026 starts, a 3 ¾-length win in the Sam F. Davis (L) at Tampa Bay Downs and a 4-length score in the Arkansas Derby (GI).

Irad Ortiz Jr., seeking his first Kentucky Derby victory, has the mount on Renegade who could join Super Saver (2010) and Always Dreaming (2017) as Pletcher Derby winners. Renegade will exit post 1.

Co-second choices on the morning line at 6-1 are Wathnan Racing's Commandment and Spendthrift Farm's Further Ado. Both are trained by Brad Cox, who won the 2021 Derby with Mandaloun.

Commandment has won four consecutive races highlighted by the Fountain of Youth (GII) and Florida Derby (GI),

Commandment will be ridden by Luis Saez from post 6.

Further Ado comes into the Derby off an 11-length victory in the Blue Grass Stakes (GI) at Keeneland on April 4. Three-time Derby-winning rider John Velazquez has the mount from post 18.

Cox also will send out Fulleffort (20-1) for St. Elias Stable and Starlight Racing. Tyler Gaffalione has the mount from post 20.

Fourth choice on the morning line at 8-1 is Mike and Kay Kay Ball's Chief Wallabee, the third-place finisher in the Florida Derby.

Chief Wallabee will attempt to make Bill Mott the first trainer to win the Derby in back-to-back years since six-time Derby winner Bob Baffert completed the double in 1997-1998 with Silver Charm and Real Quiet. Runner-up in the Fountain of Youth before his Florida Derby run, Chief Wallabee will be ridden by Junior Alvarado from post 12.

Mott and Alvarado teamed up last year with Sovereignty to win the Run for the Roses en route to a Horse of the Year campaign. The last trainer/jockey combination to win consecutive Kentucky Derbys was Ron Turcotte and Lucien Laurin, who teamed together with Derby winners Riva Ridge (1972) and Secretariat (1973).

Bill Mott's son Riley will be represented by his first two starters in Pin Oak Stud's Wood Memorial (GII) winner Albus (30-1) and Virginia Derby winner Incredibolt (20-1).

The Motts will be the second father-son duo to saddle horses in the same Derby. In 1964, Red Wingfield saddled Dandy K to an eighth-place finish behind Northern Dancer while son Bobby's Wil Rad finished 10th.

Manny Franco has the mount on Albus from post 2 while Jaime Torres will pilot Incredibolt from post 11.

Three other riders, Mike Smith, Flavien Prat and Javier Castellano, will be looking to add to their Derby victory totals. Smith, who won aboard Giacomo in 2005 and Justify in 2018, has the mount on Norman Stables and Saints or Sinners' Santa Anita Derby (GI) winner So Happy (15-1). Trained by Mark Glatt, So Happy will exit post 8.

Prat, who rode Country House for Mott, has the call on undefeated Louisiana Derby (GII) winner Emerging Market (15-1).

Owned by Klaravich Stables and trained by Chad Brown, Emerging Market will leave from post 15.

Castellano teams up again with trainer Gustavo Delgado seeking to duplicate some Mage magic from 2023 with The Puma.

Second in the Florida Derby and 10-1 on the morning line, The Puma will exit post 9 for the ownership group of OGMA Investments, JR Ranch and High Step Racing.

Baffert will be seeking a record seventh victory when he sends out two runners in Speedway Stables' Santa Anita Derby runner-up Potente (20-1) and Los Alamitos Futurity (GII) winner Litmus Test (30-1).

Juan Hernandez has the mount on Potente from post 14 with Martin Garcia riding Litmus Test from post 4.

Two-time Derby winner Doug O'Neill, who saddled I'll Have Another (2012) and Nyquist (2016) to victories for Reddam Racing, brings another Reddam runner to Churchill Downs in Pavlovian (30-1). Edwin Maldonado has the mount from post 16.

Kenny McPeek is seeking a second Derby victory to go with the Mystik Dan triumph in 2024. McPeek will send out Chester Broman's Right to Party (30-1), the runner-up in the Wood Memorial.

Chris Elliott, the 20-year-old son of Stewart Elliott who rode Smarty Jones to Derby glory in 2004, has the mount from post 5.

KENTUCKY DERBY UPDATE - April 23

John Oxley's Silent Tactic, with jockey Cristian Torres aboard, worked a half-mile in :48 on a picture-perfect Thursday morning at Churchill Downs for trainer Mark Casse.

Working on his own at 7:15, Silent Tactic clicked off fractions of :12, :24, :48 and galloped out five furlongs in 1:01 and six furlongs in 1:14.80, according to Churchill Downs clocker Adam Wallace.

Trainer Michael McCarthy said that Amerman Racing's Stark Contrast is out of the Derby picture and will be entered in the $1 million American Turf (GI). With that defection, Dutch Girl Holdings and Irving Ventures' Intrepido moves into the top 20 on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard.

Also working at Churchill Downs was the Bob Baffert-trained Litmus Test who worked five furlongs in :59 out of the gate under Martin Garcia.

With Stark Contrast opting for the American Turf, Litmus Test stands at No. 21 on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard and needs one defection from horses under consideration for the Derby to make the main body of the field when entries are taken Saturday.

Working at Palm Beach Downs in Florida, Robert and Lawana Low and Repole Stable's Arkansas Derby (GI) winner Renegade worked a half-mile in :50.94 over a fast track for trainer Todd Pletcher.

Renegade will van to Louisville from South Florida tomorrow with an early Saturday morning arrival at Churchill Downs. Pletcher will arrive in Louisville Saturday afternoon.

Two hours prior to the Silent Tactic work, Casse sent out his two Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI) candidates in West Point Thoroughbreds' Counting Stars and Tracy Farmer's Search Party.

Search Party, with Torres aboard, was first up going a half-mile in :47.60. Following a few minutes behind her was Counting Stars with Froylan Garcia up for a half-mile in :48.60.

At Palm Beach Downs, Pletcher worked his two Oaks hopefuls - Repole Stable's Zany and Calumet Farm's She Be Smooth - together through a half-mile in :49.07.

At Keeneland, Hat Creek Racing's Percy's Bar worked a half-mile in company in :49.60 with Luan Machado aboard for trainer Ben Colebrook.

Scheduled to work Friday at Churchill Downs for the Derby are Emerging Market, So Happy and Wonder Dean (JPN), with Golden Tempo expected to work at Keeneland.

On the Oaks front, Always a Runner, Bella Ballerina, Brooklyn Blonde, Meaning, Paradise and Prom Queen are scheduled to work at Churchill Downs and Dazzling Dame at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland.

ALBUS/INCREDIBOLT - Pin Oak Stud's Albus and Incredibolt galloped a mile and a quarter and then ventured to the mile chute to visit the starting gate before completing their morning activity by galloping another quarter-mile.

"That is pretty standard for us," trainer Riley Mott said after the two returned to the barn with Antonio Garcia on Albus and Charlotte O'Connell on Incredibolt.

Mott said he would be watching the weather to determine a final work day for his runners.

"It doesn't look like the forecast is as ominous as it was earlier," Mott said. "Looks like the rain starts at 6 tomorrow night but doesn't stick around, so we should be OK Saturday morning.

"They have worked together before but they won't this time. Antonio would be on Albus and Jaime Torres on Incredibolt."

CHIEF WALLABEE - Mike and Kay Kay Ball's Chief Wallabee visited the paddock and then galloped a mile and a half under Marvin Orantes for trainer Bill Mott.

CHIP HONCHO - Leland Ackerley Racing, James Sherwood, Jode Shupe and John Cilia's Chip Honcho galloped Thursday morning at 7:15 a.m. with exercise rider Roberto Howell aboard for trainer Steve Asmussen. The colt is scheduled to work Saturday.

COMMANDMENT/FULLEFFORT/FURTHER ADO - Trainer Brad Cox's Derby trio of Wathnan Racing's Commandment, St. Elias Stable and Starlight Racing's Fulleffort and Spendthrift Farm's Further Ado trained Thursday morning at Churchill Downs before schooling in the paddock.

Commandment and Fulleffort were out in the first training set at 5:15 a.m. Commandment, with assistant trainer and exercise rider Katie Tolbert aboard, jogged, while Fulleffort galloped about 1 ½ miles under Edvin Vargas. Further Ado trained in the second set with exercise rider Jonathan Santiago aboard, jogging about a half-mile before galloping about 1 ½ miles.

All three horses would work Saturday or Sunday depending on the weather, according to Cox.

DANON BOURBON - Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby invitee Danon Bourbon remains in USDA quarantine in Chicago and is scheduled to arrive at Churchill Downs Friday morning. The colt is expected to train Saturday morning and will be based in Barn 17.

EMERGING MARKET - Klaravich Stables' Emerging Market galloped a mile and a half under Luis Ortiz Trinidad for trainer Chad Brown.

Brown said that Emerging Market would work at 7:15 Friday with jockey Flavien Prat aboard.

INTREPIDO - Dutch Girl Holdings and Irving Ventures' Intrepido jogged two miles under Alejandro Galindo for trainer Jeff Mullins.

Galindo said Intrepido is scheduled to work Sunday morning with jockey Hector Berrios coming in for the breeze.

LITMUS TEST - Los Alamitos Futurity (GII) winner Litmus Test worked five furlongs out of the gate in company with Favoritism in :59 under Martin Garcia here Thursday morning.

Churchill Downs clocker John Nichols caught Litmus Test in fractions of :23.80, :35.40, :47.20, :59 and then out six furlongs in 1:11.20 and seven-eighths in 1:24.

"He was going to work Sunday (at Oaklawn Park) but the weather was bad and the track was sealed so we gave him a couple days to gallop here and he was good to go," said Dan Ward, who is overseeing trainer Bob Baffert's string here.

With Stark Contrast opting for the American Turf, Litmus Test stands at No. 21 on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard and needs one defection from horses under consideration for the Derby to make the main body of the field when entries are taken Saturday.

PAVLOVIAN - Reddam Racing's Pavlovian galloped a mile and a half at 7:15 under Tony Romero for trainer Doug O'Neill. Pavlovian is scheduled to work Sunday.

POTENTE - Speedway Stables' Potente is scheduled to arrive at Churchill Downs Thursday afternoon after shipping from his Southern California base for trainer Bob Baffert.

RIGHT TO PARTY - Chester Broman Sr.'s Right to Party galloped Thursday morning for trainer Kenny McPeek and is scheduled to record his final Kentucky Derby work Saturday.

SILENT TACTIC - John Oxley's Silent Tactic worked a half-mile in :48 under jockey Cristian Torres for trainer Mark Casse.

Working on his own at 7:15, Silent Tactic clicked off fractions of :12, :24, :48 and galloped out five furlongs in 1:01 and six furlongs in 1:14.80, according to Churchill Downs clocker Adam Wallace.

"He got over the track really well and when he came back, he wasn't even blowing," Casse said of Silent Tactic's first Churchill Downs work.

The work was accomplished on a Chamber of Commerce morning with mild temperatures.

"The weather was perfect," Casse said, adding with a smile, Now let the other guys worry about the weather."

SIX SPEED - Brunetti Dugan Stables, Black Type Thoroughbreds, Steve Adkisson and Swinbank Stables' Six Speed is scheduled to clear quarantine Thursday evening and train Friday at 7:15 a.m.

SO HAPPY - Norman Stables and Saints or Sinners' Santa Anita Derby (GI) winner So Happy galloped a mile and a half under Gustavo Alvarado during the 7:15-7:30 training window for Kentucky Derby and Oaks horses.

Trainer Mark Glatt was on hand for the morning activity for So Happy who is scheduled to work Friday morning.

STARK CONTRAST - Amerman Racing's Stark Contrast will bypass Kentucky Derby 152 and be entered in the $1 million American Turf (GI) on Derby Day according to trainer Michael McCarthy.

THE PUMA - OGMA Investments, JR Ranch and High Step Racing's The Puma jogged a mile under Carlos Oliveras for trainer Gustavo Delgado.

It was the first day on track for The Puma, who arrived at Churchill Downs Tuesday and tack-walked in Barn 42 on Wednesday.

WONDER DEAN (JPN) - Yoshinari Yamamoto's Wonder Dean galloped Thursday morning and remains scheduled to work six furlongs Friday.

THE $5 MILLION KENTUCY DERBY HORSES (G1)

Here's the field for Kentucky Derby 152 in post position order (with jockey, trainer and morning-line odds): Renegade (Irad Ortiz Jr., Todd Pletcher, 4-1); Albus (Manny Franco, Riley Mott, 30-1); Intrepido (Hector Berrios, Jeff Mullins, 50-1); Litmus Test (Martin Garcia, Bob Baffert, 30-1); Right to Party (Chris Elliott, Kenny McPeek, 30-1); Commandment (Luis Saez, Brad Cox, 6-1); Danon Bourbon (Atsuya Nishimura, Manabu Ikezoe, 20-1); So Happy (Mike Smith, Mark Glatt, 15-1); The Puma (Javier Castellano, Gustavo Delgado, 10-1); Wonder Dean (JPN) (Ryusei Sakai, Daisuke Takayanagi, 30-1); Incredibolt (Jaime Torres, Riley Mott, 20-1); Chief Wallabee (Junior Alvarado, Bill Mott, 8-1); Silent Tactic (Cristian Torres, Mark Casse, 20-1); Potente (Juan Hernandez, Bob Baffert, 20-1); Emerging Market (Flavien Prat, Chad Brown, 15-1); Pavlovian (Edwin Maldonado, Doug O'Neill, 30-1); Six Speed (Brian Hernandez Jr., Bhupat Seemar, 50-1); Further Ado (John Velazquez, Brad Cox, 6-1); Golden Tempo (Jose Ortiz, Cherie DeVaux, 30-1); Fulleffort (Tyler Gaffalione, Brad Cox, 20-1). Also Eligibles: Great White (Alex Achard, John Ennis, 50-1); Ocelli (Joe Ramos, Whit Beckman, 50-1); Robusta (Emisael Jaramillo, Doug O'Neill, 50-1); Corona de Oro (Brian Hernandez Jr., Dallas Stewart, 50-1).