Want to know who is going to win the Kentucky Derby or whether Bob Baffert will have a horse in it? Here are five questions before Saturday's race.
brings with it the usual assortment of highs and lows, boundless expectations of glory, and for most the reality of defeat. Never forget, only one horse can win the Derby. Well, sometimes two at different times, but more on that later.
Wild on Ice, the long-shot winner of the Sunland Derby, was pulled up on the backstretch Thursday with an injury to his left hind leg. He walked on to the horse ambulance, was evaluated at Churchill Downs and then was transferred to an equine hospital in Lexington, Ky., where it was determined that the gelding’s injuries were not repairable.Kentucky, unlike California and New York, shows little transparency when it comes to horse injuries.
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