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The two dominated the remainder of the field by over 10 lengths. [17] Art Sherman said of Arrogate, "That winner is the real McCoy, I knew he was the one we had to beat, but I didn't know how good he was." [18] Post-race analysis gave California Chrome a Beyer Speed Figure of 119, the highest of his career, but Arrogate topped it with a 120. [19]
Mystik Dan came into the race with two wins in six starts, with his most recent victory coming in the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park. Pre-race favorite Fierceness was among the early front runners of the race with Just Steel and Track Phantom, but Fierceness ultimately was unable to keep pace in the home stretch and dropped to a 15th-place ...
Both horses finished behind winner Rich Strike, who had only entered the race after a late scratch. Entering the race at odds of 80–1, Rich Strike's victory was the second-largest upset in Derby history. It was the first Kentucky Derby victory for his trainer Eric Reed, as well as the first graded stakes win in any race for his jockey Sonny Leon.
The New York Racing Association (NYRA) decided instead to hold the 2020 Belmont Stakes on June 20, three weeks after racing in New York reopened on June 3. That scheduling made the Belmont the first leg of the 2020 Triple Crown, and meant that the Kentucky Derby was not the first leg of the Triple Crown for the first time since the 1931 edition .
The Kentucky Derby is only open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds, [9] thus all entrants in the 2018 race were part of the 2015 North American live foal crop of roughly 22,000. [10] The field was limited to twenty horses who qualified based on points earned in the 2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby , a series of designated races that was first ...
The race is run at 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $1,000,000. The Blue Grass Stakes was a Grade I event from 1974 (when grading was first introduced) through 1989 and again from 1999 to 2016. [ 1 ]
The first day of the Kansas high school state track and field meet is officially underway in Wichita. ... Complete results from the KSHSAA state track and field meet can be found on Heartland Timing.
The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held annually on Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.The Preakness Stakes is a Grade I race run over a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles (9.5 furlongs; 1.9 kilometres) on dirt.