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American Pharoah won Saturday's Kentucky Derby beating Firing Line and Dortmund. The Preakness Stakes on May 16 will be next for the winner who is trying to become the 12th horse to win the Triple Crown. The last horse to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes was Affirmed in 1978.
Laura Mitchell, Lousy handicapper, but love the ponies anyway. The winning jockey gets 10% of the winner's purse, which is 60% of the total purse. The value of the 2015 Kentucky Derby was $2,178,800, of which $2 million was guaranteed. American Pharoah won $1,240,000 for his effort, so jockey Victor Espinoza collected $124,000. (Trainer Bob Baffert collected the same amount.) Espinoza doesn't get to keep it all.