Kentucky Derby by-the-numbers:
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- 0 winners from post No. 17
- 1 winner without 2-year-old start (Apollo, 1882)
- 1 1/4 miles from start to finish or 2,011.68 meters or 2,200 yards or 79,200 inches
- 1:59 2/5 is Secretariat's record-setting time.
- 2.80 is record low payoff for $2 win bet on winner (Count Fleet, 1943; Citation, 1948)
- 3 winning fillies (Regret, Genuine Risk, Winning Colors)
- 3 1/2 pounds is weight of Derby trophy
- 4 wins for trainer Bob Baffert
- 5 wins for jockeys Eddie Arcaro, Bill Hartack
- 6 3/4 length win by Mine That Bird in 2009, largest in 63 years
- 7 unbeaten starters won
- 8 wins for owner Calumet Farm
- 12 Triple Crown winners
- 13 winners started from post No. 5
- 19 winners whose names began with letter S
- 20 horses is maximum field
- 22 wire-to-wire winners
- 26 starters entered unbeaten
- 47 barns at Churchill Downs
- 48 starters for trainer D. Wayne Lukas
- 54 years, oldest winning jockey Bill Shoemaker (Ferdinand, 1986)
- 77 years, oldest winning trainer Art Sherman (California Chrome, 2014)
- 92 years, oldest winning owner Frances Genter (Unbridled, 1990)
- 107 winners born in Kentucky
- 141 previous runnings
- 184.90 is record high payoff for $2 bet on winner (Donerail, 1913)
- 218 imported rolled cigars
- 400 roses comprise garland draped over winner
- 1,234 1/2 feet for stretch, from head of lane to finish line
- 2,000 media credentials
- 5,000 liters of bourbon
- 11,500 workers at Churchill Downs
- 49,000 Derby pies
- 58,654 reserved seats for Derby, Oaks
- 127,000 mint juleps
- 163,000 hot dogs
- 170,513 people attended in 2015
- 522,000 cans of beer
- 1,043,346 pari-mutuel tickets sold in 2015 by Churchill Downs
- 4,000,000 dollars for highest priced winner/starter bought at auction (Fusaichi Pegasus, 2000)
- 17,900,000 million viewers watched NBC from 6:30p-6:45p in 2015.
- 194,000,000 dollars in total wagers (a record) in 2015.
