Get your bets in—the 2025 Kentucky Derby is quickly approaching.

As 2,000 horses and the 1,200 people who work with them prepare for one of the biggest sporting events of the year May 3, experts from FanDuel—the official sports betting partner of Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby—are giving all the tips and tricks for watching and betting on, as FanDuel TV Racing Analyst Michael Joyce put it, “the most important race in the world.”

“It is a global phenomenon,” Joyce told E! News in an exclusive interview during Kentucky Oaks Day, the derby’s counterpart for only female horses. “It’s the one time of the year where the entire world is looking at American racing.”