Watching The 2025 Kentucky Derby and Oaks Horses Workout At Dawn At The Downs | Churchill Downs | 4K

This adventure brings us to Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY to view the 2025 Dawn at the Downs event which lets fans watch the morning workouts of the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks horses. This is the 151st event of both the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks races.

Dawn at the Downs occurs every morning for about a week before the Derby runs. This year it ran from Thursday of the previous week until Wed of the week of Derby. I filmed on the last day on Monday of Derby week and took photographs across 3 other days. What is cool is it is a free event where you just show up for the gates to open at 7am and you can watch the morning workouts to 10:30am. However, the Derby and Oaks horses only workout from 7:30-7:45am generally speaking. And of course, there is no guarantee that you will get to see all the horses running in the races due to the horses' schedules. If you want a better chance of seeing more of the horses, I recommend attending at least 2 days of the event.

And for those that like photography, I show you my favorite photos I took of every horse I saw at the event.

Enjoy the video!

Filmed on 04-28-25

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