{"id":15839,"date":"2022-05-01T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gambyl.com\/?p=15839"},"modified":"2022-05-01T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T20:50:28","slug":"the-kentucky-derby-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gambyl.com\/en\/sports-betting\/the-kentucky-derby-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kentucky Derby 2022 – Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Kentucky Derby 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Kentucky Derby<\/strong>, presented by Woodford Reserve, is a top rank, Grade I stakes race for 3-year-old Thoroughbred horses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The race distance is one and one-quarter miles long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes place on the dirt racetrack at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Derby is the longest continually held sporting event in America and one of the most prestigious horse races in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kentucky Derby \u2013 Horse Racing \u2013 Preview \u2013 Info<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When:<\/strong> Saturday, May 7th, 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Can I Watch?\u00a0<\/strong>NBC Sports<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 horses compete in the Kentucky Derby<\/strong>, which is a larger field size than most horse races; where on average 8 horses race against one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 20 horses racing in\u00a0the Kentucky Derby<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0must first travel along the road to the Derby, which is a series of 35 races taking place at tracks across the country and the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winning purse is $2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes place on the first Saturday in May every year and typically draws a crowd of 155,000 people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this year, the first seed is “Epicenter”, a Kentucky-born Colt from Westwind Farms, owned by Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC, and his trainer is the leading all-time trainer of winners in North America, Steve M. Asmussen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kentucky Derby, presented by Woodford Reserve, is a top rank, Grade I stakes race for 3-year-old Thoroughbred horses.  The race distance is one and one-quarter miles long. It takes place on the dirt racetrack at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.  The Derby is the longest continually held sporting event in America and one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[98,208,6],"tags":[256,237,342],"class_list":["post-15839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betting","category-horse-racing","category-sports-betting","tag-horse-racing","tag-racing","tag-top-horses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"Erwin Noguera","aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t