Since it's Mother's Day ... here's Rich Strike's mom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPBMZWGqmE4

And an AWESOME nickname! "The Manitoba Missile"

Thanks for sharing!

Running up the rail runs in the family...

Nice touch today....

And All

Happy Mother's Day to You and yours

(d)

More fun stuff. Here is the data for the final 1/16 mile of the race.   He was running 44 MPH while nobody else was close.  And despite a "ground saving" trip he ran farther than most of the field just from coming out of the 20 hole and having to weave through and around traffic so much.

		This Segment							Race Cumulative
					Time	Dist	Rail	Avg	Lengths			Time	Peak	Dist	Delta	Avg
					(s)	Run (ft)	(ft)	(mph)	Ahead			(s)	(mph)	(ft)	(ft)	(mph)
		Rich Strike			5.10	331	13.2	44.2	-			2:02.61	44.2	6756	---	37.7
		Epicenter			5.54	333	20.7	40.9	3/4			2:02.72	41.4	6698	-58	37.4
		Zandon			5.54	332	29.3	40.9	2

It's amazing that a mare born in Manitoba, Canada would 1-end up joining the Calumet Farm broodmare band 2-produce a Kentucky Derby winner!  Even up here at Woodbine we don't get a lot of Manitoba-breds in our races as they usually aren't good enough for our competition.  She was a huge exception.

Good stuff Tex.

Sovereign, he is RAN-RAN.  His next gen back is RAN/ND-RAN/ND.  Go back another one and he’s RAN/ND/ND/T2-RAN/T2/ND/RAN.

He was on horse #21 but post 20.  The gate only has 20 stalls...

thanks corrected. .

I don't call a horse that is near the front in under a 1:11 3/4 a "closer", even if he was off the lead by a second at the half.

And I agree wholeheartedly that the race was reminiscent of cheap speed from the old days.  Perhaps it will return with the UAE Derby qualifiers racing against a weaker field combined with having an abundance of speed.  It seems that horses coming to CD via that route continue to have issues adapting.