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Remington Park canceled the final nine races on the Saturday program due to a TV equipment malfunction, the track said. The first race was run for purse money only. The track was unable to televise a proper racing presentation and had no ability to export the signal to other venues as technical issues with TV control room equipment forced the problem. Because the field for the first race had already arrived in the saddling paddock and waited for more than 30 minutes, the decision was made to allow that race...

NBC Sports' 25th presentation of the Kentucky Derby delivered an NBC Sports-record average of 17.7 million viewers on NBC and Peacock--marking the largest Kentucky Derby audience since 1989 (18.5 million viewers, won by Sunday Silence) and a 6% increase from last year (16.7 million viewers for Mystik Dan's victory in a three-horse photo finish). Viewership peaked at 21.8 million viewers from 7-7:15 p.m. ET, as Sovereignty ran to a 1 1/2-length victory over Journalism. The peak audience was the largest ever for an NBC Sports presentation of the Kentucky Derby...