The 20 horses have arrived at Churchill Downs. The post positions have been set. And the 2021 Kentucky Derby is quickly approaching. On Saturday, horse racing's Triple Crown season will get underway with the first of its three marquee events.
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On Saturday, 20 horses will head to the gates at Churchill Downs, but only one will emerge victorious as the winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby , which will kick off this year's Triple Crown schedule.
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The Kentucky Derby slips back this year in its rightful place as the keystone of the South’s rites of spring, and it’s a most welcome rebirth. For their part in all this, Thoroughbred racehorses haven’t quite gotten the memo that there has been a pandemic, so they just want to race, and that unstoppable natural power is a bracing gate-opener to the month of May, and to the rest of the Triple Crown season. The reserved seats at Churchill Downs this Friday and Saturday for the Kentucky Oaks and the Derby will be reduced by 50 percent, but that, in comparison to the almost wholly deformed 2020 racing season, is a victory in Louisville, and for spectator sports.