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.

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will compete in the 2025 Kentucky Derby on Saturday for the first time since 2021 following a three-year Churchill Downs suspension. The penalty was imposed after Baffert's 2021 winner,

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,