Editor’s note: Follow coverage of the 2026 Kentucky Derby throughout the day.
FanDuel Racing confirmed Saturday it is experiencing technical issues affecting deposits, account balances and wagers on the biggest betting day of the horse racing calendar.
“We’re currently experiencing intermittent issues affecting deposits, account balances and wagers on TVG and FanDuel Racing,” the company said in a statement posted to its support account on X.com. “Our team is actively working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.”
The statement was posted at 3:12 p.m., less than four hours before the Kentucky Derby was set to go off.
The 152nd Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs is expected to generate approximately $349 million in wagers. It is among the largest single-day betting events in American sports.
Users had been reporting issues on the platform for hours before the official acknowledgment, with complaints including location verification failures, inability to place bets on Churchill Downs races and account balances appearing as zero, according to the outage tracking site StatusGator. The site logged 16 user-submitted reports in the last 24 hours.
The issues affected both FanDuel and TVG, the horse racing platform FanDuel absorbed in recent years and one of the sport’s most recognized brands. Together, they represent one of the largest advanced deposit wagering operations in the country, making Saturday’s outage particularly glaring given the volume of bettors expected to be active ahead of the race.
FanDuel did not provide a timeline for resolution in its statement and did not respond to a request for comment from USA Today.
Alternate platforms for users to place bets include TwinSpires, the official wagering platform of Churchill Downs, as well as DraftKings and BetMGM Racing in some states. Derby coverage streams on Peacock and NBC with the Derby set to run at approximately 7 p.m.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: FanDuel Racing has issues ahead of Kentucky Derby