Kentucky Derby 2015: Bovada opens its future book with Carpe Diem on top

Carpe Diem, showing winning Keeneland’s Grade I Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity is Bovada’s Kentucky Derby favorite as that gambling website opens its 2015 future book. Coady Photography/Keeneland photo

The gambling website Bovada has opened its 2015 Kentucky Derby future book, and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runner-up Carpe Diem is the 15-1 favorite.

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red and two-time Grade I winner American Pharoah, who missed the Juvenile with a bruised foot, both are 16-1.

Here are the favorites in Bovada’s 2015 Kentucky Derby future book. According to the website, odds on other horses are available upon request (Not nearly as extensive a listing as Wynn Las Vegas makes public. Which, by the way, we’ll be posting as soon as we get their post-Breeders’ Cup odds):

Carpe Diem                               15/1

American Pharoah                     16/1

Texas Red                                16/1

Daredevil                                  20/1

El Kabeir                                   25/1

Cozmic One                              35/1

Jess’s Dream                            35/1

Blofeld                                     40/1

Conquest Tsunami                     40/1

Conquest Typhoon                    40/1

I Spent It                                   40/1

Big Trouble                               50/1

Bold Conquest                          50/1

Calculator                                 50/1

Lord Nelson                              50/1

Lucky Player                             50/1

Punctuate                                 50/1

Savoy Stomp                            50/1

Souper Colossal                       50/1

Startup Nation                           50/1