Renegade opens as the morning line favorite for the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The colt trained by Todd Pletcher and set to be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. is 4-1 after drawing the inside No. 1 post on the rail in the field of 20 horses. Trainer Brad Cox's No. 6 Commandment and No. 18 Further Ado are the second and third choices, each at 6-1. His third entrant is 20-1 long shot Fulleffort, who drew the far-outside No. 20 post. Two-time Triple Crown champion Bob Baffert has two chances to win the Derby for the seventh time and break a tie with Ben Jones for the most of any trainer, saddling Potente and Litmus Test. The race is May 2.
In four-plus decades of covering the Kentucky Derby, I wondered if columns analyzing the post position draw belonged in the Yada Yada Yada/Blah Blah Blah category.