2026 Kentucky Derby Betting Preview
The Action Network Sports Betting Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby is this Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky where all eyes will be on the ponies! Action Network betting expert Sean Zerillo welcomes horse racing handicapper Mike Conti back to the show in on of our most anticipated annual episodes. Together the guys get into parimutual betting, CAW's and other aspects of betting the Kentucky Derby and horse racing in general as well as specific horses they're tossing and where they're looking to find value in who's left on the board. They dive into the weeds with trends an picks including outright winners, longshots, exotics and a few looks on the undercard. Touching on horses like Renegade, Chief Wallabee, The Puma, Emerging Market, All that and more right here on The Action Network Podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Action Network podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | All the work, all the talk, all the handicapping is done. |
| 0:09.6 | It's time for history. |
| 0:13.1 | They're all in line. |
| 0:14.5 | We're ready for the start. |
| 0:17.7 | They're off in the Kentucky Derby. |
| 0:21.6 | Break of another two legs more, back to win, win, win on the turn, beginning to pick up stride near the back of the pack. |
| 0:27.6 | As the field turns for home, and he first through an opening on the inside, |
| 0:31.6 | Stride for Stride as they come to the final for a long. |
| 0:35.6 | King's battling on! One two down to the line for long. Kings battling on, one-two down to the line. |
| 0:38.3 | An impossible result here. |
| 0:41.9 | Which the Kentucky Derby! |
| 0:44.2 | Hello, welcome the Action Network podcast. |
| 0:46.3 | This is our 2026 Kentucky Derby batting preview. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm Sean Zerullo, joined today by Mike Conti, |
| 0:51.5 | to help you break down the 152nd run for the roses, going to post at 57 p.m. Eastern on Saturday. Deep field this year, we've got six horses with top buyers over 95, four to five legitimate pace threats. I think we will get a fast pace this year. We'll discuss that in a second, but Conti and I are going to go through the Kentucky Derby Field to give you the horses that we're tossing, not including in our selections or on our tickets, talk about our top long shot selections, maybe talk about a couple of the X factors in this race who do not have speed scores from prior races, and then finally give you our top wing contenders and how we're betting the race, exact as trifectas, superfectus, exact, etc. |
| 1:30.8 | We'll help you build out some tickets. |
| 1:32.3 | Then we're going to back up, |
| 1:33.3 | talk about the Kentucky Oaks and some of the undercard races, |
| 1:35.7 | including one that Conti may have some ownership ties to |
| 1:38.6 | on Friday and Saturday's cards. |
| 1:41.5 | And with that, here's our 2026 Kentucky Derby preview. Mike, welcome into the show. |
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