Henry Q, a horse co-owned by Mick Cronin, Chip Kelly and Rick Pitino, failed to win the Sunland Derby, missing out on a chance to run in Kentucky Derby.
, who paid $72.80 to win. Low Expectations was second and Henry Q finished a well-beaten third. Hard to Figure was last in the six-horse field at the track located on the New Mexico-Texas border near El Paso.
If Henry Q had won, there was another obstacle to getting to Churchill Downs. The 3-year-old colt was not an early nomination to the Triple Crown races but could have qualified for a $6,000 nominating fee Monday. If the horse were nominated by Jan. 28 it would have cost $600.The first quarter-mile in the 1 1/8-mile race was listed as going in 20.58 seconds and the first half-mile in 45.96, making it easy for trailing horses to catch up.
Henry Q was bought as a yearling at a Keeneland sale for $125,000. He made his debut for trainer Doug O’Neill at Santa Anita where he finished fourth in his first two races before winning his third. He was sent to Sunland for trainer Todd Fincher and crushed a field of eight by winning the Mine That Bird Stakes by 14 ¾ lengths.
Cronin is no stranger to horse racing, having spent parts of his youth going to River Downs race track, now called Belterra Park, near Cincinnati with his father. At various times, his father was a mutuel clerk and a jockey agent. Cronin also spent time talking horses with his former boss, Pitino, when he was an assistant at Louisville. Mick’s brother, Dan, is a professional handicapper.
As if Cronin’s horse racing weekend wasn’t star-crossed enough, The Del Mar Group won a claiming race worth $24,000 on Saturday at Santa Anita but the horse was claimed by another group for $25,000. Win a race, lose a horse.
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