Gray horses: Gray horses look different, so they generate some excitement from people who might not care about a horse’s pedigree or speed rating. No gray horse has won the Kentucky Derby since 2005. There are three grays running this year: Sandman, Final Gambit, and Chunk of Gold.

Latest odds for Kentucky Derby 2025 after Rodriguez was scratched from the Run for the Roses field and Baeza entered Saturday race at Churchill Downs:

According to the Lexington Herald Leader, of the 2022 crop of foals (the year the horses that will compete in this year's Kentucky Derby were born), 7,754 of the 18,700 North American foals were born in Kentucky. Among the 20 horses in this year's Derby, all but two were born in Kentucky.