Kentucky Derby 2026 (FULL RACE) | NBC Sports

All right, thank you, Mike, and we're just about set. Last few. Japan's Wonder Dean moving into the starting gate, along with O'Sulley, who's never won a race in his life. Incredibolt moves into line, and that will lead Longshot Robusta to the outside stall. Robusta steps forward and in, all in line and ready for the start. They're off in the Kentucky Derby! Renegade getting bunched about on the inside. He did get in a little bit of traffic. Wonder Dean goes out to the front with six speed on the outside, and Danone Bourbon is up close with So Happy as well. So it's these four to set the pace, then Emerging Market, Pavlovian to the outside, Potente, and Litmus Test along the rail. Break of two to further adieu, who's in between Chief Waddlebee and Robusta. Three to Intrepidol and Incredibolt, and then Commandment, who finds himself about ten legs off the lead. Then it's a big gap back to Renegade, who was a little bit in traffic there on that first turn. O'Sulley is next, and then come the two trailers, Albus and Late, running Golden Tempo. So on to the backstretch, they go here in the Kentucky Derby. Six speed is expected, setting the pace of 46.44, opening half-mile here. The lead is two legs. So Happy and Japan's Danone Bourbon, heads apart, second and third. Wunderdeen is fourth in behind them. Litmus Test is fifth along the rail. Then Emerging Market, Pavlovian, further adieu, is in behind them. Further adieu, about seven legs behind under John Velasquez, and then Potente down on the inside, and Chief Waddlebee. Commandment has seven to make up. He's outside of Intrepidol, then Incredibolt. Renegade is in behind that group. He's on the rail. He's got ten legs to make up, has six speed, and Danone Bourbon are one-two on the far turn. Mike Smith and So Happy are there to their outside. Two and a half back, and then down toward the inside comes Emerging Market as they make their way to the top of the stretch. Further adieu is getting going on the far outside with Commandment. They're both putting in their runs as they arrive into the final furlong. Oh, Sally is also gaining ground on the far outside as they come to the last 16th of a mile. Danone Bourbon in front. Oh, selling a huge long shot. Renegade and Golden Tempo are closing two. Here's Golden Tempo! Golden Tempo and Cherie Devaux make history in the Kentucky Derby over Renegade in a final time of 2.02.27 seconds. The first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby. 44-year-old Cherie Devaux conditioning Golden Tempo with a tremendous run down the stretch to win the Derby. The second female trainer to win a triple crown race. Jen Antonucci won the Belmont three years ago. And for all the talk of Irad Ortiz trying to win his first Kentucky Derby, it is brother Jose who wins his first Derby in his 12th try. With Irad right behind him. 1-2 for the Ortiz brothers. Golden Tempo was so far last down the backside it couldn't count that far. Renegade got a little bumping early in the race, but I thought he had every chance to win. I didn't think he got shoveled back too far. What an exciting race. And Renegade from way way back to come second and Osele out of nowhere 70 to one shot finishing third. The maiden had never won a race before and looked for a second like it was going to be Osele. And then suddenly on the far outside you see Renegade then Golden Tempo. Wow. Jaime Torres the jock gave incredible coming by to give Jose Ortiz praise. This horse was in a different time zone early in the race which is the way he likes to run. What and the pace set up for him. It was fast early with six feet going out. Uh they went 22 and changed the first quarter which is but there he is. This is he's already starting to move now down the backside he was five or six behind the last horse. Great ground saving trip by Jose Ortiz. Sometimes when you're that far back Mike that everybody makes their decision already and you you're left a lot of open lanes. Now he'll shift him out as he knows he's going to run into trouble if he doesn't. And he takes aim on his brother and what a tremendous kick by Golden Tempo. That's a lot of ground to make up in the stretch of the Kentucky Derby. He's he's seven or eight weeks back at the top of the stretch still. The numbers on how far he ran are going to be amazing right. Wow and this is the pedigree of this horse. He has been dead last or second to last in almost every race he's run but made a charge like this at a moment like this. A historic moment Nick Luck. Truly Mike.