2018 Triple-Crown winner Justify has one son in the field, American Promise, trained by D. Wayne Lukas. According to Brooks Holton of the Louisville Courier Journal, this will mark the first time the offspring of two Triple-Crown winners have been in the same Kentucky Derby field since 1952.

Just 13 horses have accomplished the Triple Crown of horse racing entering the 2025 Kentucky Derby on Saturday. An even less common occurrence, however, is a horse winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and then claiming the Run for the Roses.

They called him the Bald Eagle of the Sierra. He had won more races on more tracks than anyone else in the business. He was 72 years old when he decided to schlep a colt from California to the Kentucky Derby, which he had never won. His presence at Churchill Downs in 1986 surprised everyone,