The Kentucky Derby will be run for the 150th time this Saturday, and a full field of the nation's best 3-year-old horses will take to the gate for a chance at
will be run for the 150th time this Saturday, and a full field of the nation’s best 3-year-old horses will take to the gate for a chance at immortality.
But greatness alone isn’t enough to win the Kentucky Derby; a horse also needs the luck of avoiding traffic trouble and a great trip around 19 other horses. Fierceness’ biggest obstacle to victory this Saturday might actually be his far-outside post position: stall 17 in the 20-horse gate, a position from which no horse has won the Kentucky Derby in 40 previous attempts.
Trip is everything in the Kentucky Derby, and Fierceness’ first quarter-mile from the far-outside 17 post figures to be dicey. Velazquez will need to gun him toward the front early on, and even so, the scramble with several other horses could send him four- or five-wide off the rail into the clubhouse turn.
Further back, jockey Tyler Gaffliaone will be getting Sierra Leone into high gear, looking for seams in a march toward the front – and possibly thinking of the last-to-first, rail-skimming move that three-time Derby winning jockey Calvin Borel made on 2007 winner Street Sense. A similar daring ride could make Sierra Leone unbeatable Saturday.
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