Kentucky Derby Breeding

March has its madness and April is all about the dawning of the baseball season, but May is reserved for the Run for the Roses, the Kentucky Derby. Contested on the first Saturday in May, the one and a quarter mile race at Churchill Downs has been held every year since 1875 and is the first leg of thoroughbred horse racing's Triple Crown. A record 170,513 attended the Derby in 2015.