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Rich Strike is the winner of the 148th Kentucky Derby at famed Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The horse entered the race with 80-1 odds to win.

Rich Strike will try to win the second leg of the Triple Crown when the Preakness Stakes takes place in Baltimore on May 21. The final leg of the Triple Crown is the Belmont Stakes, which will be held in Elmont, New York on June 11. Rich Strike is the winner of the 148th Kentucky Derby at famed Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The horse entered the race with 80-1 odds to win. It’s one of the biggest upsets in the history of the race. The horse had just entered the race on Friday. Baffert had two horses in this race — Messier and Taiba — that were trained by his assistant Tim Yakteen.

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Sadly, jockey Chris Antley slowed down and jumped off the horse in the final furlong after sensing something was wrong. Jockey Victor Espinoza (powder blue and yellow silks) led American Pharoah to the finish, giving trainer Bob Baffert his fourth Derby win and first since 2002. After stumbling out of the gate (see No. 8 in first photo), Barbaro blew past one of the most competitive fields in years to win the Derby by over 6-1/2 lengths. An overhead shot of Charismatic (No. 11) riding down the final stretch en route to his Kentucky Derby win. Seattle Slew went on to win the Triple Crown, the first horse to do so since Secretariat in 1973. Secretariat’s feat in 1973 will arguably go down as one of the biggest athletic feats in sports history.

Rich Strike etched his name in Derby history as one of the biggest surprises to ever win the race.

Ironically, owner Willis Sharpe Kilmer had initially bought Exterminator not to race, but to help train two year old Sun Briar, a U.S. Champion. He and jockey Bobby Ussery won the 93rd Kentucky Derby by a length, while also registering what was the third-fastest time at that point at 2:00.60. Apollo did not follow the usual path other Kentucky Derby winners have. If you could use a time machine to make a bet on any race, this would be the one. 7. Apollo (1882), 32-1 5. Giacomo (2005), 50-1 Although he was a longshot, the horse did have winning in its blood as his father was Birdstone, the 2004 Kentucky Derby winner. Maximum Security finished the race ahead by 1 3/4 lengths, but was eventually disqualified after Country House jockey Flavien Prat filed an objection. He claimed that the winning horse had come out of his lane in the final turn and made contact with another horse named War of Will, who then made contact his horse. Here is the full CBS Sports story on Rich Strike's win. Rich Strike pulled a huge upset during the 2022 Kentucky Derby by winning against 80-1 odds. Jockey Roscoe Goose, a Louisville native, had a successful career and went on to become one of the inaugural class of inductees in the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 1963.

All-sources betting on the May 7 Kentucky Derby (G1) card at Churchill Downs reached $273.8 million, a 17% increase over last year's $233 million and a 9% ...

"We expect the Kentucky Derby Week Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before taxes and other factors) to reflect another record with $7 to $9 million of growth over the prior record in 2019." The Derby race handle of $44 million for TwinSpires was up 8% over last year's then-record $40.8 million. Derby week handle also set a record at $391.8 million, up 25% from last year's $314.6 million and up 14% over the previous record of $343 million in 2019. The record of 170,513 was established in 2015. Churchill noted this year's wagering included $8.3 million wagered in Japan as Japan-trained Crown Pride finished 13th in the race. Betting on this year's 20-horse Derby race totaled $179 million, up 15% from last year's $155.4 million—a 19-horse edition—and up 8% over the previous record of $166.5 million in 2019.

Big-name jockeys and owners and exiled trainers were outdone and outshone by a group of racing no-names who brought a storybook finish Saturday at Churchill ...

He and Chad Brown, trainer of Zandon, are two of the most accomplished in the nation. “And to have this happen, that something might be telling me it's the end of the line.” Breaking from the far outside post, Leon prudently guided Rich Strike toward the middle of the track and back of the pack. But then, one of Reed’s barn workers called him and said, “Don’t do anything with your horse.” Reed protested, but she insisted she heard of a scratch that was coming down. Rich Strike was entered in a claiming race, which means another owner and trainer can put in a claim to buy horses in the field. Rich Strike then ran well in an allowance race at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington in October, finishing third despite a shaky start and being steadied in traffic on the turn. Then he earned 20 for a third-place finish in the Jeff Ruby Steaks on April 2. Rich Strike, at 80-1 the second-longest shot to win this 148-year-old race, left 150,000 people gasping at Churchill Downs. He left a handful of his backers roaring and weeping with joy as they stood on the track—“We shocked the world, people!” said one member of the entourage. He lost a “shake” with another trainer for a different horse in the race, but got Rich Strike for the sum of $30,000. “He ran terrible,” Reed said, but he was undeterred because he believed the colt would do better on dirt. The Sport of Kings was overtaken by delightful, endearing commoners on this first Saturday in May. No one missed Bob Baffert, banished from the track for medication violations, his former horses finishing well up the track while he is in exile. No one saw Rich Strike coming Saturday. Not before the Kentucky Derby, where the horse wasn’t even assured of a spot in the field until another competitor scratched the day before.

What they're saying: "I about fell down in the paddock when he hit the wire," said winning trainer Eric Reed after the race, per AP. · The big picture: · By the ...

Of note: Trainer Bob Baffert was not at the Derby this year. It is split between the first through fifth-place finishers, CBS Sports writes. Masks were also not required this year.