Kentucky Derby 2015 Payout: Prize Money, Results and More from Churchill Downs

When American Pharoah won the 2015 Kentucky Derby, it took all of a few seconds for most people watching to think, "Is this the horse that will end the Triple Crown drought?"

Perhaps. Before we look forward to that quest, however, let's take a look back at Sunday's race, the results and all the money involved. 

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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

Robert Raiola passes along the purse information:

Triple Crown Preview

American Pharoah is going to be the overwhelming favorite to win the Preakness, and why not? The horse everyone felt was the most talented coming into the Kentucky Derby lived up to the hype, even if he didn't quite live up to the notion that he's some sort of superhorse. 

Pharoah, it should be pointed out, basically had the perfect run at the Derby. He was able to push out of the gate fast, get in front of the pack, and settle next to Firing Line and behind Dortmund, who set a pretty slow pace. From there, he could save his energy for down the stretch, where he saved his kick for a bit late and went a bit wide around the final turn but had the afterburners when he needed them. 

He's talented enough to lead wire to wire at the Preakness, even if we didn't see Victor Espinoza take him on that sort of run in the Derby. At the shorter Preakness, American Pharoah is going to have to shoot early again and maintain a faster pace than he did at the Derby. 

Can he do that? 

Absolutely. While setting the pace is never ideal, Pharoah has the top speed and endurance to weather a faster pace. With a smaller field contesting him and many of the top horses taking this race off and going to the Belmont, it would be surprising if American Pharoah didn't win at the Preakness. 

Ah, but the Belmont. Now that's the test. It features a longer track and will be Pharoah's third race in a short time period, something the horse isn't accustomed to. Many of the better horses from the Derby will be returning, and their owners, trainers and jockeys will be looking to block Pharoah's quest for history (and, you know, make a bunch of money). 

Physically, Pharoah should be just fine dealing with the longer track. As he showed at the Derby, he has a late gear he can access that many of the other horses in the field don't possess. But that third race in a row is a brutal test, no matter how talented American Pharoah may be. 

We all want to see history. We all want American Pharoah to be "the one"—or at least the first one in a long time.

It's possible. It's also going to be an incredibly difficult feat to accomplish. Here's hoping.