Post position No. 17 is the only gate that has never produced a Kentucky Derby winner, so Sandman will try to make history in the 2025 Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs. The 2025 Kentucky Derby post time is 6:57 p.

With a favorite post position at No. 8—a spot that has produced nine Derby winners, most recently Mage in 2023—Journalism has a very real chance to approach the Preakness with a shot at the Triple Crown.

It produces world-class wine, blockbuster films, and tenacious horses that charge onto the Kentucky Derby stage with unrivaled speed and grit, ready to compete at Churchill Downs. Since 2000, when Fusaichi Pegasus won the "Run for the Roses,