Posted on 05/07/2022 4:16:03 PM PDT by TBP
Longshot Rich Strike won the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville in upset fashion. The horse had 80-1 odds entering the race.
It was jockey Sonny Leon’s first time winning the Derby.
The No. 21 horse wasn’t expected to run the race. He was the first alternate after Ethereal Road was scratched Friday morning.
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My mom’s father lost race horses in a barn fire. Never owned another horse.
Glad for this guy.
I watched that on TV—the first time in my life that I have ever watched a horse race.
For those interested, Johnny Enlow will give prophetic meaning to the race tomorrow at 2 pm EDT
https://rumble.com/c/ElijahStreams
Actually, it was the trainer who lost 23 horses in a barn fire:
https://www.kentucky.com/sports/horses/kentucky-derby/article261214912.html
His trainer is Eric Reed, a longtime horseman who’d never trained a Derby winner. Before Rich Strike, he’d never had a horse in the race. In 2016, Reed’s farm, Mercury Equine Center, lost 23 horses in a barn fire. “They were heroes, the people who work for me,” Reed told the Herald-Leader that year. “They went above and beyond what I could even imagine anybody trying to do. We ran into the barn, the smoke was so black we couldn’t even see. The only thing you could see was the flames.”
I’m happy for him as well - this win has to be much more than ‘sweet’.
Thanks.
This was so thrilling! Best wishes to Rich Strike, his trainers and owner!
***Preakness will be interesting.***
I think so, too.
Rich Strike had a LOT of energy after this race, more than I usually see.
The next race he will have all the eyeballs on him, so you never know what will happen.
Even if you put $2, you made a good bit.
In tennis, they call the substitute for a canceled entry a “lucky loser.”
Just shows how tight a race can be, even though while the race plays out it looks as if some horses haven’t a chance.
The Lord works in mysterious ways
Somebody made a lot of money.
You have a typo -- it was 2015. Pharoah foaled in 2012.
Good thing this didn’t take place in Baltimore. Torrential rains all night, all day for several days now. That horse would have needed a surf board to run here!
Maybe the horse was on drugs.
The fix was in.
Sounds like it by the description of his behavior.
He is a young stallion and some of them can be pretty nasty. The outriders are the one’s that catch up with the winner after the race and escort him to the winner’s circle. Their horses are not wearing any protective gear like a pony horse is when a bad one is going to be handled. Rich Strike should have been tired enough to behave but he was certainly trying to savage the other horse. That was a very dangerous thing out there. I am glad the outriders finally got him under control. That was one rank horse.
It wasn’t that bad.
American Pharoah had to run in bad, bad rain at the Preakness in 2015. It was MUCH worse that day (at that exact hour) than it was today.
...any given Saturday.
Apparently, Sahnnon Bream put two dollars on him.
Thank you.
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