One of the biggest upsets in racing history happened Saturday in the Kentucky Derby. Here's how a 3-year-old colt that was closer to last place than first for most of the race made it all happen.
This doesn’t happen. Horses at odds of nearly 81-1 don’t win the Kentucky Derby. Jockeys who have never won any big stakes race of any kind don’t win the Kentucky Derby. Owners with fewer than 10 career wins don’t win the Kentucky Derby.One of the biggest upsets in racing history happened Saturday in the Kentucky Derby, when Rich Strike shocked the establishment by running past everyone and winning the first leg of this year’s Triple Crown series.
Around that time, the connections for Ethereal Road — trained by D. Wayne Lukas — told Derby officials that they were pulling out of the race. Reed got another call at 8:55 telling him not to move the horse, then another call a minute or two later with the official word.AP Photo/Jeff RobersonThink of the horses like race cars. There’s a finite amount of fuel in the tank. The faster you burn the fuel, the quicker the tank empties. And that’s exactly what happened in the Kentucky Derby.
The biggest indicator that this was going to be a wild finish probably came when track announcer Larry Collmus briefly stopped his rundown of which horse was where in the field at the half-mile mark. “The opening half-mile was — WHOA! — blazing fast, 45.36 seconds,” Collmus said.At that half-mile mark, Rich Strike was ahead of only two horses. He was sitting in 18th place.Two answers: He ran by some, and some, as they say in racing, stopped running.
If we knew that, everyone would have cashed their Derby tickets. Rich Strike had just one win coming into the race .
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