Kentucky Derby 2025 Horses to see if it rains in Churchill Downs

Twenty-five years ago, the hip-hop duo Outkast adorned the world with one of his biggest hits “Ms. Jackson”. In IT, André 3000 has a line that always exceeds the opinion of this reporter once or twice during the construction of the Kentucky Derby.

“You can plan a pretty picnic,” he says, “but you can't predict the weather.”

The prediction of accuweather.com has shifted significantly for the first Saturday in May, which now demands the clouds for a sun with a few shower – a 71% precipitation failure to be precise.

It raises the questions: Which horses in the derby 151 field have driven in the rain? How about muddy and/or sloppy tracks?

The answer is at least six by equibase.com. Weather -specific data for two, admire Daytona and Luxor Cafe, were not available.

If you are sent to a poncho in Churchill Downs and need help to adapt your derby betting, the competitors, the experience in the rain and its consequences-have in the program in the order, accompanied by your morning chances:

NeoEquos, a justified participant who took third place in the Florida Derby, has a complicated story on sloppy tracks. The son of Neolithic did not end in his first start, which came in the rain in the Gulfstream Park in the rain in July; He was hit hard by an inside enemy at the start and lost his driver. Flash Forward until January 23: For the second time, he reaches the circle of the winner with a 3 ½-length victory in a registration race under similar conditions on the same route.

The last gambit needed three attempts to break his virgin, and did this under rainy conditions on February 15 on a quick all -weather route in Turfway Park. The derby will be his first start with dirt, but the deputy coach Tessa Walden was confident that the son would not be able to change the 3rd grade after his victory in Jeff Ruby Steaks. Spring: “He now has the maturity to handle something else.”

American Promise, a son of the Triple Crown winner from 2018 Justify, won a special weight in the mud in Oaklawn on December 29. In his nine career, the Virginia Derby Champion only drove a different time in the rain: a Maiden special weight on September 27 on a sloppy route in Churchill, where he took eighth place.

Two of the first three starts from Flying Mohawk came under shower conditions, but the derby will be his first race on dirt. The also justified participant took second place in the first: a Maiden special weight on September 1 on a fixed lawn route in Kentucky Downs. Twenty -seven days later he took the fifth in the pilgrimage sticks in class 2 with a flexible external lawn in the aqueduct.

The publisher is only on May 13, which has been running in the derby since 1937. The Son of the Triple Crown winner from 2015, American Pharoah, is in five of his seven career in the board of directors in less than ideal conditions last year: the aforementioned September Decid maggot weight on a sloppy track (third) and the aforementioned September. Oaklawn (second).

Coal battle, Briley's first winner of the Graded Stake in more than three decades of training, broke his virgin on a sloppy route in Evangeline last July. In November, he and Vargas started an unbeaten strip with four starts with a 2 ½-length victory in a 6 ½-furgonian race in the mud in Delta downs.

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