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The 20-horse field for Saturday's Kentucky Derby lacks a dominant runner. Classic Empire is the choice before the 4-1 race. The two horses, Always Dreaming and McCraken, are the second choice at 5-1.

Therefore, Horse trainer Todd Pletcher will saddle three horses in the Kentucky Derby, a race that features no clear favorite and a chance of early rain.

Toss in the threat of rain early in the day, Pletcher will run 5-1 shot Always Dreaming, 20-1 Tapwrit and 30-1 Patch, the one-eyed horse. Pletcher is 1 for 45 in the Derby.

Steve Asmussen also has three runners, and they're all longshots: 15-1 Hence, 20-1 Lookin at Lee, and 30-1 Untrapped. He is winless in 15 tries, the only hole in his Hall of Fame resume.

The white-haired trainer doesn't have a horse this year, but like everyone else, he has an opinion. He said that there's a lot of parity. There are some nice, solid horses.

The rain is predicted to end hours before the race goes off in the early evening. Favorites have won the Derby the past four years, the longest such streak since the 1970s.

Sonneteer will try to overcome that bit of history. He's 0 for 10 in his career. He would be just the fourth maiden and the first since Brokers Tip in 1933 to wear the roses.

Classic Empire sure looked like the early Derby favorite last year when he won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was named 2-year-old champion. He made his 3-year-old debut with a third-place finish in the Holy Bull Stakes in February.

More info about The Kentucky Derby:

The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.

More info about horse trainer Todd Pletcher :

Todd Pletcher was born June 26, 1967 in Dallas, Texas. He is a leading American thoroughbred horse trainer. He has won four consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

May, 2017