Follow along live all day Saturday as Kentucky Derby 149 unfolds at Churchill Downs in Louisville.
First post on Saturday is at 10:30am. The Kentucky Derby is scheduled for 6:57 p.m. Local TV coverage was scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. on WLEX-18. National television coverage was to begin on NBC at noon.
Herald-Leader sports columnists John Clay (@johnclayiv) and Mark Story (@markcstory) will be on the Downs along with staff writers Ben Roberts (@BenRobertsHL), Cameron Drummond (@cdrummond97), Caroline Makauskas (@cmakauskas), Taylor Six (@TaylorSixHL), Monica Closet (@monica_kast) and Andrew Henderson (@andrewfenderson). Photographers Ryan C. Hermens (@ryanhermens) and Silas Walker (@sigh_les) leads our visual team in Louisville.
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