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Kentucky Derby 2019: A full field of 14 is in for Friday’s Kentucky Oaks, with the top prize for 3-year-old fillies worth a record $1.25 in purse money as they go 1 1/8 miles at Churchill Downs. California-based Bellafina is squarely the one to beat, but she’ll offer little value in a race that includes division champion Jaywalk, the speedy Serengeti Empress and Lady Apple, an up-and-comer out of Oaklawn Park. 

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Post time for the Oaks, Race 11 of 13 at Churchill Downs, is 6:12 p.m. ET with NBC Sports Network providing live coverage. Here’s a look at the field in post order with trainers, jockeys and Mike Battaglia’s morning line.

Justify won the 2018 Kentucky Derby after being tabbed the race favorite with 7-2 betting odds. Justify became the first horse since Apollo in 1882 to win the Derby despite not winning a race as a two-year-old. He went on to win the the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, becoming the 13th horse in history to win the Triple Crown. Justify was trained by Bob Baffert, whose horses have won five Kentucky Derbies, seven Preakness Stakes and three Belmont Stakes.

Horse (Qualifying points) Odds

Tacitus (150) 6-1

Omaha Beach (137.5) 9-2

Vekoma (110) 15-1

Plue Que Parfait (104) 50-1

Roadster (100) 5-1

By My Standards (100) 20-1

Maximum Security (100) 10-1

Game Winner (85) 8-1

Code of Honor (74) 15-1

Haikal (70) 30-1

Improbable (65) 10-1

War of Will (60) 20-1

Long Range Toddy (53.5) 30-1

Tax (52) 30-1

Cutting Humor (50) 30-1

Win Win Win (50) 30-1

Country House (50) 30-1

Gray Magician (41) 50-1

Spinoff (39) 30-1

Master (Japan Invite) 50-1

Assessing the statistics for success by post position down the years, there is one obvious takeaway: avoid No. 17.

It is the only one of the 20 gates to have never produced a winner. There is a caveat in that when the field used to be smaller there was no need for a No. 17.

However, no winners from 40 runs from gate 17 is a poor record. Even gate 20, used just 17 times, has produced one winner (Big Brown in 2008).

The connections of the horse that gets drawn in No. 17 this year will sensibly talk about breaking the duck in 2019, and there is no logical reason why it has drawn a blank for so long. But it is one to be avoided.

As is, potentially, No. 2. A gate so close to the inside rail should be advantageous given it means a shorter route around the 10 furlong track.

But the last winner of the Derby to start from gate two was Affirmed in 1978. Affirmed went on to become the 11th winner of the Triple Crown, with the 12th not coming until American Pharoah in 2015 before Justify repeated the feat last year.

The inside posts have proved a scourge to Derby hopefuls in recent years, though, with no winners coming from the inside three gates in the 21st century.

Somewhere in the middle of the pack seems to be the sweet spot.

Winner Super Saver came out of No. 4 in 2010. No. 5 has 10 winners to its name, including Always Dreaming in 2017, more than any other post.

Meanwhile, posts No. 7, 8 and 10 have combined for 23 winners, including Justify last year.

Nyquist won from No. 13 in 2016 and American Pharoah from No. 15, proving a wider berth is far from terminal to a horse’s Derby chances.

But it seems clear that the extreme ends of the starting gate are to be avoided.