Meet the Kentucky Derby horses running in the 2025 race

The Kentucky Derby will start the 2025 competition for horse racing's Triple Crown on Saturday with a field of 20 horses set to race in the annual Run for the Roses.

Journalism, who won three straight graded-stakes races, was picked as the morning-line favorite by Mike Battaglia, the oddsmaker at the home of the Derby, Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky.