Medina Spirit wins the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby

[nycbos]

Source: Washington Post

The Derby returned to the first Saturday in May this year, a date that had shifted in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Up next in horse racing’s Triple Crown: the Preakness Stakes, scheduled for May 15 in Baltimore.


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[PTWB]

1. What a barbaric "sport"

Vile.

[SheilaAnn]

2. Did anyone see Mitch McConnell? Does he attend this race? n/t

[El Supremo]

3. He's in the turtle race next. n/m

[Mosby]

4. Steve Kornacki called it.

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[BobTheSubgenius]

5. Obviously, it's way different for devotees.

I find that, even when I have money on a race, it doesn't really excite me much. So, with that context in mind, I sometimes wonder why they still hold these events after Secretariat. Probably the one time I felt a shiver from watching a horse race.

For me, there was that horse....and hundreds of also-rans.