The world best thoroughbreds and jockeys will line-up to race around a 1.25 mile track, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, for the first leg of the Triple Crown Championships, on May, 2017 with the 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby.
Known as “The Most Exciting Two minutes in Sports” it is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses; colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kg), fillies 121 pounds (55 kg). Continue