2015 Kentucky Derby: Video Replay, Purse Earnings and Triple Crown Odds

Coming into the 2015 Kentucky Derby, it appeared there was a dream team assembled for the top contender. American Pharoah was considered a truly special, generational horse. Bob Baffert, his trainer, had trained three previous Derby winners. Jockey Victor Espinoza had won the race last year atop California Chrome. 

The dream team didn't disappoint, as American Pharoah took the first leg of the Triple Crown in impressive fashion Saturday evening, pulling past Firing Line and Dortmund down the stretch to earn the win. Below, you'll find every bit of info you could possibly want in the aftermath of the race. 

Replay

Full Results

Place	No.	Horse	Jockey	Trainer	Lengths
1	18	American Pharoah	Victor Espinoza	Bob Baffert	-----
2	10	Firing Line	Gary Stevens	Simon Callaghan	1
3	8	Dortmund	Martin Garcia	Bob Baffert	3
4	15	Frosted	Joel Rosario	Kiaran McLaughlin	3 1/4
5	5	Danzig Moon	Julien Leparoux	Mark Casse	6 1/2
6	3	Materiality	Javier Castellano	Todd Pletcher	7 3/4
7	14	Keen Ice	Kent Desormeaux	Dale Romans	8 3/4
8	6	Mubtaahij	Christophe Soumillon	Mike de Kock	9 1/2
9	13	Itsaknockout	Luis Saez	Todd Pletcher	10 1/4
10	2	Carpe Diem	John Velazquez	Todd Pletcher	11
11	21	Frammento	Corey Nakatani	Nick Zito	12
12	9	Bolo	Rafael Bejarano	Carla Gaines	12 3/4
13	17	Mr. Z	Ramon Vazquez	D. Wayne Lukas	15 1/2
14	1	Ocho Ocho Ocho	Elvis Trujillo	Jim Cassidy	15 1/2
15	20	Far Right	Mike Smith	Ron Moquett	15 3/4
16	16	War Story	Joe Talamo	Tom Amoss	19 1/4
17	4	Tencendur	Manny Franco	George Weaver	35
18	19	Upstart	Jose Ortiz	Rick Violette Jr.	60 1/2
	7	El Kabeir	Calvin Borel	John Terranova	SCR
	11	Stanford	Florent Geroux	Todd Pletcher	SCR
	12	International Star	Miguel Mena	Michael Maker	SCR

Payouts

Horse	Win	Place	Show
American Pharoah	$7.80	$5.80	$4.20
Firing Line	-----	$8.40	$5.40
Dortmund	-----	-----	$4.20

Purse

Sports accountant Robert Raiola tweeted the purse splits for the top five finishers:

Triple Crown Odds

In the immediate aftermath of the Kentucky Derby, I'm setting American Pharoah's Triple Crown odds at 4-1 given the depth of the potential fields at The Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. 

Triple Crown Hype

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American Pharoah is a special horse. He has top-end speed but can also hold back and tap into a major kick down the stretch. He didn't need to play the role of front-runner on Saturday, but you get the impression he has the talent to lead a race from wire to wire. 

There will be a lot of Triple Crown hype in the coming days, but let's play devil's advocate for the moment, shall we?

American Pharoah had a dream run Saturday. Give the horse and jockey Espinoza credit for a good start that saw them come from the outside and settle into the top three behind Dortmund and next to Firing Line for much of the race. But from there, it was easy going. 

Materiality, the speedster whom most folks expected to be the pacesetter, had a poor start and got pinned into the rail by the crowd, falling out of contention early in the face. Dortmund, meanwhile, raced to the front and settled into a somewhat slower pace than was expected, and with prime position, Espinoza was able to bide his time before unleashing his horse. 

But boy, when American Pharoah finally opened up, it was something to see. The horse came around the final part of the final turn far wider than he needed to be, but it hardly mattered, as Dan Wolken of USA Today noted:

For the briefest of moments it appeared Firing Line was poised to pull the upset, but the horse simply didn't have the final kick that Pharoah possessed. 

Even Baffert, who trained the horse and is familiar with his ability, was impressed with Pharoah on the day, per the Courier-Journal's Derby News on Twitter:

It's easy to get excited about American Pharoah's Triple Crown chances, though there is a deep stable of horses capable of ending the dream. The Preakness is going to be the tougher race for Pharoah to win than the Belmont Stakes, as Pharoah showed what type of closing speed he has. How will he hold up in a sprinter's race if the pace is much faster, much sooner? 

That is the question. Pharoah has the talent to win all three races, yes, but the field has the ability to make it difficult. It was always going to take a special horse to win all three races this year. 

Could Pharoah be that horse? 

The horse racing world desperately hopes so.