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.
