Sovereignty pulls away to win the 2025 Kentucky Derby

The 151st Kentucky Derby is in the books, and Sovereignty is the winner.Sovereignty went off with odds of (7-1).The exacta, which requires bettors to correctly pick the first and second-place horses, paid out $48.32 on a $2 bet.Journalism, the 3-1 favorite, finished second.The trifecta, which only wins if you correctly pick the horses that finish first, second, and third, paid out $115.56 on a $0.50 punt.

No.21 Baeza, who was an also-eligible, finished third.The superfecta, which goes one step further and requires you to correctly pick the horses who finished first, second, third, and fourth, paid out $1,682.27 on a $1 wager.

No.3 Final Gambit finished fourth.The Kentucky Derby has been a spot for long shots in recent years, with the previous six winners before today going off with average odds of 33-1.Two of those champions, Country House and Rich Strike, went off with odds longer than 65-1.Rich Strike, the 2022 champion, was the second-biggest long shot to ever win the Kentucky Derby with 80-1 odds.

Only the 1913 winner and 91-1 outsider Donerail boasted a bigger price to win.Mystik Dan won last year’s Kentucky Derby in a wild photo finish....