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Seize the Grey, a 2024 Kentucky Derby hopeful before a disappointing finish in the Blue Grass Stakes, finished first in the $600,000, Grade 2 Pat Day Mile Stakes in 1:35.96 on Saturday.
Each year, the Kentucky Derby promises to be the "most exciting two minutes in sports." The 150th Run for the Roses certainly did not disappoint, with an incredible photo finish win by Mystik Dan.
Fierceness strode into the Kentucky Derby as the overwhelming favorite, but Mystik Dan took the roses in a three-horse photo finish, winning the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday in a stunning upset.
The 2024 Kentucky Derby (branded as the 150th Running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve for sponsorship reasons) was the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby. It took place on May 4, 2024, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] The race was open to 20 horses, who qualified through the 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby.
The 150th Kentucky Derby was all that and more as 156,710 people were on hand to watch Mystik Dan’s thrilling victory via a photo finish in the Run for the Roses on Saturday at Churchill Downs ...
The race was open to 20 horses, who qualified for the race by earning points on the 2023 Road to the Kentucky Derby. The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km) and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875. The purse for 2023 was US$3 million. [2] The race was won by Mage.
The Japan-bred colt Forever Young, second front left, finished third in the 150th Kentucky Derby. Also shown is runner-up Sierra Leone, left; Catching Freedom (4); and winner Mystik Dan, right.
[1] [2] He rode Rich Strike to victory in the 2022 Kentucky Derby [3] and the second largest payout to win in history of the Derby. Rich Strike's victory was the second for a Venezuelan jockey at the Derby, 51 years after Gustavo Ávila rode Canonero II in 1971. [4] The day before his victory in the Kentucky Derby, Leon jockeyed six races at ...