The early favorite for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby is Orb at 7 to 2. Trained by Shug McGaughey, Orb drew post position number 16 Wednesday evening at Churchill Downs.
The second favorite is Verrazano at 4 to 1. He’ll run from post position number 14.
Verrazano is one of five Derby starters trained by Todd Pletcher.
The third choice, at 5-1, is Goldencents, trained by Doug O’Neill, who won last year with I’ll Have Another.
O’Neill says and the horse’s owners are pleased that Goldencents will break from the number eight post.
A full field of 20 horses is entered for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.
Louisville forward Chane Behanan celebrates after defeating Michigan in the NCAA basketball championship on Monday. It was the school's first basketball title since 1986.
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Louisville Cardinals' athletic director Tom Jurich is often cited as the reason the school has become a national athletic powerhouse.
University of Louisville fans have had a lot to cheer about lately — and not just basketball.
Monday's big victory by Louisville's men's basketball team over Michigan is just the latest success for the school and for an athletic department that is quickly becoming one of the country's most admired.
In January, the football team upset fourth-ranked Florida to win the Sugar Bowl, and coach Charlie Strong turned down a lucrative offer from the University of Tennessee to continue rebuilding the Louisville program.
In the back room of Muth's Candies in Louisville, Ky., Jonathon Skaggs and Bobby Masterson are busy dipping marshmallows into a copper pot.
The pot is filled with a top-secret hot caramel mixture. Skaggs and Masterson tap the excess golden caramel off each candy before placing it on a board to cool.
Masterson says it's a rhythm repeated hundreds of times each day.
"They're good ... they're a big-time seller in here in Kentucky, especially right here in Louisville," Masterson says. "There's a lot of people that come and get 'em."
