2025 Kentucky Derby Odds: Journalism Leads Favorites

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00:00here are the odds right now we'll dive into these horses in just a minute and of course who is their

00:06jockey journalism is the favorite as of right now yeah journalism come back for the big jays

00:12a seven to two price but dumsey as you look at the favorites with the shortest numbers

00:17as you look at this year's field what are some of the main storylines for you

00:22entering the 2025 kentucky derby look journalism rightfully so the top choice in the betting and

00:29will go off as the post-time favorite the only knock that i can come up with against journalism

00:34is you look at some of the races that we exit and there's only been on one occasion where journalism

00:40has beat more than five competitors five other horses what's different about the kentucky derby

00:45there are 20 horses going into the starting gate these are three-year-olds not with a lot of

00:50racing experience start number five start number six so i think that could actually hurt the chances

00:55for journalism now i guess what bodes well in favor is that well journalism has also taken down

01:01the two-year-old champ in citizen ball citizen ball trained for bob baffet now bob baffet whether you

01:07like him you hate him he is an icon in this sport he is a hall of fame conditioner and he has two very

01:13live chances coming into this race citizen ball is one of those what we saw last season earlier this

01:20year there is talent in bunches there's early speed in bunches and i think we're going to get

01:26a very nice looking track on saturday afternoon people are sleeping on the bob baffet runners

01:31because journalism took the edge over him coming in and out that lead out lead in prep race i think

01:36citizen ball for bob baffet after a three-year suspension chasing something very special a seventh

01:43win right here in the kentucky derby watch out for citizen ball sitting at 20 to 1 on the morning line

01:49it's not often that i like going against favorites but i just think with the circumstances at that

01:55kind of price journalism for michael mccarthy could be a little vulnerable coming into the big race on

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