The "Official" 145th Kentucky Derby thread

[Dacula]

May the fastest out of the gate and muddy horse win.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

I didn’t even care who won.. but they obviously stole the win from him.

[higgmeister]

I need to calm down. Maximum Security was the winner. The other horse now wins its participation trophy. #MeToo

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

I feel the same way.

[Rusty0604]

From what I see, that looks about right.

[mason-dixon]

Watch how the press et al are swarming around the Country House trainer before the foul decision was rendered and the trainer & jockey of Maximum Security were almost like being ignored. Looked like white collar “old money” against “blue collar”

[Rusty0604]

The fishy thing to me is the jockey for Max Sec kept saying the horse was distracted by the crowd noise. First, that’s no excuse, but that make me suspicious that maybe the jockey was responsible for the horse movement, trying g to blame the horse.

[ssaftler]

a clownish ABC broadcast production.

Even more clownish since it was broadcast on NBC! Not that there's much difference between the two.

[StAnDeliver]

This is detestable.

In the 1986 Kentucky Derby, in nearly the exact same spot, Ferdinand, under "the Shoe" Willie Shoemaker came over and shut off Rampage and forced him to his knees, and only a miracle by the great Pat Day allowed him to snatch Rampage up and prevent the greatest disaster in Derby history.

No change.

Bayern came over 4 paths at the start of the 2014 Breeders Cup Classic and wiped out the favorites.

No change.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Jockey should have checked his rear view mirror.

This is going to court. There’s too much money involved.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

People are Booing.. GOOD!!!
SCREW THEM! They absolutely stole it from Maximum Security!

[Dacula]

This is a stain on horse racing that will last for a long time.

[conservativesister]

Don’t see any difference between politics and horse racing

[JohnBovenmyer]

There was a foul by the on the track winner , even if not against the awarded winner, and they applied the rule’s penalty. The “Best Horse” wasn’t above the law. So I credit this race to the rule of law. Now apply this precedent to Hillary et al!

[advertising guy]

War of Will was the cheated horse,Not Country House

[deweyfrank]

Amen.

[big'ol_freeper]

So the conservative horse won, but the democrat horse wouldn’t accept that it lost, so they named Bob Mueller special counsel to investigate and he decided to disqualify the convervative horse for colluding with a Russian horse and the race was handed to the loser.

Great sport.

[Jemian]

Omaha Beach was out as well as Haikel (or something like that). And it is a good thing I don’t bet money on horses.

[StAnDeliver]

And I will tell you why this happened - Santa Anita's winter horse massacre where nearly three dozen horses bought it, because Bubba's mistress Belinda Stronach held back the track renovation funds so to create a scenario where the Arcadia property is unsuitable for racing so, gosh wow, it's worth a billion as housing / retail.

So these lame provincial Kentucky hillbillies -- who couldn't get a straight job so became horse racing stewards; who wouldn't have taken down this horse on a Thursday nightcap; and who don't like the Wests or Jason Servis period paragraph -- got righteous because they falsely believed PETA et al would ruin their reps by not taking the winner down.

This is what happens when you give Leftards a seat at the table (PETA now has a seat on the CHRB), the unintended consequences of the domino effect are hideous.

[Dacula]

Great synopsis.

So the conservative horse won, but the democrat horse wouldn’t accept that it lost, so they named Bob Mueller special counsel to investigate and he decided to disqualify the conservative horse for colluding with a Russian horse and the race was handed to the loser.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I thought that the Russian racehorse would be too busy relieving itself.