The live coverage on Saturday of the 151st Kentucky Derby has delivered its most general for NBC since 1989 with an average of 17.7 million viewers.
The other of the race culminated at 21.8 million viewers, a record for NBC.
Peacock has produced the highest traffic in all streamers in partnership for the race. With the 151st derby, NBC Sports had the most general streaming public ever made for a horse racing event, with an average audience of 959,000 viewers. The network has reached an average of more than 15 million viewers on all platforms for the last 10 of 12 derabys.
Soverigny was the winner of Kentucky Derby on Saturday, winning a price of $ 3.1 million. The horse was jockey by the Junior Alvarado. The victory marked his first career victory at Kentucky Derby.
The other best finish included journalism, Baeza and the final gambit. 19 horses participated in the race.
Upon entering the derby, journalism was the favorite to win at 7/2 odds (via Kentucky Derby), followed by Sandman at 5-1 and the Luxor Cafe at 8-1. Sovereignty had the fourth best rating at 9-1 and American Promised had the fifth best at 11-1.
The other horses that contributed to the 151st Kentucky Derby were Citizen Bull, Neoquos, American promised, admire Daytona, Flying Mohawk, East Avenue, publisher, Tiztastic, rendered judgment, coal battle, piece of gold and all-powerful Owen.
The total price for the derby is $ 5 million, divided between the best five finishers. The second place won $ 1 million, third place obtained $ 500,000, the fourth received $ 250,000 and the fifth obtained $ 150,000. The winning jockey, Alvarado, won 10% of the gains for first place, which represents a reduction of $ 310,000.
