Kentucky
Vocabulary in Context: The Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Sport of Kings. Ha!
Thoroughbred races have more and more surrendered to the sheikhs and princes, the hedge fund wizards and industrialists, the fats cats who might plunder their vaults and pay no matter it took to safe a regally bred horse who, they hoped, might run a gap within the wind.
However that was not the story on Saturday within the 148th working of the Kentucky Derby. Not after an 80-1 named Wealthy Strike, who didn’t even earn his spot within the beginning gate in America’s best horse race till Friday, appeared to observe Moses’ path by means of the Crimson Sea to a three-quarter size victory that had appeared inconceivable.