There are plenty of ways to bet the 2025 Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs. The Santa Anita Derby winner, Journalism, is the 3-1 favorite in the 2025 Kentucky Derby odds, while Sovereignty (5-1) and Sandman (6-1) are the only other 2025 Kentucky Derby horses with single-digit odds. Meanwhile, the legendary Bob Baffert has one of the 2025 Kentucky Derby contenders, Citizen Bull (20-1), while trainer Ken McPeek, who won last year with Mystik Dan, has among the biggest of the 2025 Kentucky Derby longshots with 30-1 Render Judgement. The Kentucky Derby 2025 post time is 6:57 p.m. ET. Journalism will try to snap an 0-for-49 streak by Kentucky Derby horses who have attempted to win with only two previous starts at age three.

Before making any 2025 Kentucky Derby picks for the annual Run for the Roses, you NEED to see what our resident horse racing guru, Jody Demling, has to say, given his historical DOMINATION of this race.

A fixture in the horse racing world who has been writing about, talking about and betting on races for years, Demling has nailed the Kentucky Derby-Oaks double 11 times in the last 16 years! He also predicted the winner of the Belmont Stakes four of the last seven years and called 10 of the last 20 Preakness winners, including 2023 when he hit the winner, exacta, trifecta and superfecta. He also hit the Preakness in 2024. Anyone who has followed him on those picks is WAY UP! Join SportsLine here to unlock his 2025 Kentucky Derby picks, and use promo code "JOCKEY" to unlock 50% off!

While a slew of horses could hit the board in the 2025 Kentucky Derby, Demling is highly confident in a small group, isolating them for his exactas, trifectas and superfectas! He's especially high on a MASSIVE double-digit longshot who "is generating buzz on the backside"! If you include this horse in your 2025 Kentucky Derby picks, you could be looking at a COLOSSAL PAYDAY! 

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