Down and Derby Trivia Answers!
What is the distance of the Kentucky Derby race?
Answer: 1 1/4 miles (10 furlongs or 2,012 meters).
What is the maximum number of horses that can participate in the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: 20.
What is the name of the official drink of the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: Mint Julep.
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 2022?
Answer: Essential Quality.
Who is the record holder for the fastest time in the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: Secretariat, with a time of 1:59.40 in 1973.
What is the purse for the Kentucky Derby 2023?
Answer: $3 million.
Who is the only jockey to have won three consecutive Kentucky Derby races?
Answer: Eddie Arcaro, in 1941, 1942, and 1943.
What is the name of the horse that won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875?
Answer: Aristides.
What is the official flower of the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: The rose.
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 2020?
Answer: Authentic.
Who is the only trainer to have won the Kentucky Derby eight times?
Answer: Ben Jones.
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 2019?
Answer: Country House.
What is the name of the racetrack where the Kentucky Derby is held?
Answer: Churchill Downs
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 2018?
Answer: Justify.
Who is the only filly to have won the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: Regret, in 1915.
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 2017?
Answer: Always Dreaming.
Who is the only trainer to have won the Kentucky Derby five times in a row?
Answer: Jim Fitzsimmons, from 1930 to 1934.
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 2016?
Answer: Nyquist.
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 2015?
Answer: American Pharoah.
Who is the only trainer to have won the Kentucky Derby four times in a row?
Answer: Bob Baffert, from 1996 to 2000.
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 2014?
Answer: California Chrome.
Who is the only owner to have won the Kentucky Derby six times?
Answer: Calumet Farm.
