The Kentucky Derby post position draw is official and Essential Quality, the favorite who won the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park, drew the No. 14 post.
Essential Quality opens at 2-1.
Super Stock, winner of the Arkansas Derby, is 30-1 in the morning line and will race from the No. 18 post.
Churchill Downs has a custom-made starting gate for 20 horses and no longer uses an auxiliary gate for the outside horses.
First post Saturday is 9:30 a.m., and the Derby is expected to be run at 5:37 p.m.
Here’s the horses, post positions and odds:
- Known Agenda, 6-1
- Like the King, 50-1
- Brooklyn Strong, 50-1
- Keepmeinmind, 50-1
- Sainthood, 50-1
- O Besos, 20-1
- Mandaloun, 15-1
- Medina Spirit, 15-1
- Hot Rod Charlie, 8-1
- Midnight Bourbon, 20-1
- Dynamic One, 20-1
- Helium, 50-1
- Hidden Stash, 50-1
- Essential Quality, 2-1
- Rock Your World, 5-1
- King Fury, 20-1
- Highly Motivated, 10-1
- Super Stock, 30-1
- Soup and Sandwich, 30-1
- Bourbonic, 30-1