Maryland’s top performers honored, Derby day attendance, and jockeys behaving badly, in the week in social media.
Jockey Alexander Crispin won the Eclipse Award for top apprentice, while Derby-Breeders’ Cup winner Authentic was named Horse of the Year.
Jockey John Velazquez is 0-for-9 in the Preakness and last year got dumped leaving the gate. Now, with Authentic, he’s got a shot to break his maiden.
Kentucky Derby winner Authentic is probable for the Preakness as long as everything goes to plan, and Tiz the Law remains a possible candidate.
Authentic went for the lead early and held them off late to win the 2020 Kentucky Derby.
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The Kentucky Derby is upon us, the Preakness will be fan-free, and the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling sale has a bumper crop, in the week in social media.
Protests, and the nation’s reckoning with race and racism, arrived at racing’s front door this week. The sport will need to make some choices.
King Guillermo, winner of the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby, was scratched from the Kentucky Derby Thursday after spiking a fever.
Long before he was a Kentucky Derby contender, Ny Traffic spent his formative months in a rural corner of Virginia, at Sunny Dell Farm.