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Game 12, held on Saturday, May 3, at Churchill Downs, attracted 150,000 people, the largest number of attendees in live sports events in the United States.
The horse racing stirred something inside us. Whether you are watching or betting, this 151st run of the Kentucky Derby is a moment to cherish the most indispensable animal in human civilization: the horse.
It all started in the Bronze Age 4,200 years ago, when Shintashta culture domesticated horses and spread rapidly throughout the Eurasian continent. According to the Smithsonian, horses breed more successfully in human care. People planted horses, settled in distant corners of the world, and carved epic moments in human history. On April 18, 1775, a brown mare brought Paul Revere to Lexington. No horse, no America.
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Of course, the Colts at the Kentucky Derby are all elegant purebreds, and you can trace back to each of their pedigree parents, back to 1700.
But I have a secret to tell you these three-year-olds. They can be naughty boys.
When you see some antics, you have to marvel at the dedication and connections in partnerships that are crucial to human history.
This is not easy.
Mage (L), jockey Javier Castellano rides, outside the fourth quarter at the Kentucky Derby in Churchill Downs on May 6, 2023. (Andy Lyon/Getty Image)
There is Burnham Square, his neck bows during the morning workout, and it takes more than half a mile to "relax" and settle down.
"He's just a little tough. Yes, he's trying to bite the pony rider. And the pony. He's a little clown," his sport rider Mark Cutler told Fanduel TV. "But he's not bad at all, and over the past few months, he's really grown up."
Laughing in the racing barn, it scares mom and daughter.
As for Grey Sandman, owner Griffin Johnson said: "He's not as crazy as his father, but he certainly brought personality and stupidity." Sandman's father sticker is now 24 years old, a quirky, smart gray whose descendants make over $216 million on the track. Sandman is his spitting image and has made a million dollars himself. Quirks can tolerate such success. In the barn, Sandman “always have a great time and he’s easily in love with the sport,” Johnson said in an interview with Andie Biancone.
Note that, as the cavalry said, they are not all "upward". Coal wars from Louisiana are the laid-back type. “If he doesn’t lie down, he usually relaxes behind the stall.” He knows when the game is going to play,” his coach Lonnie Briley told Louisville Express Magazine.
Personality is important because on the day of the game, anything can happen. Wealth prefers long-distance horse racing, but horses must want to win.
Forte is on the track during morning workouts, preparing for the 149th run of the Kentucky Derby in Churchill Downs on May 5, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo taken by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
Take Curlin's son as an example, who won several games this spring. On April 5, in Santa Anita, journalism tangles the track behind the backpack. The jockey umberto rispoli heads straight for his knees, standing straight in the horse rup, and the jockey takes the position when the jockey has not yet sought true speed from the horse. Then, at seventy-sixty poles, it was almost disaster. Journalism is hit behind by one horse and hit by another, but as the official equibase chart says, “tilt to three transparent widths.” Rispoli demanded power in homesteads, while the press beat his rival Baeza nearly 2 times. They will meet again in Derby.
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In Kentucky, anything can happen. The big and loud crowd put a huge pressure on the horses. The Kentucky Derby runners arrived a few days ago to practice loading at the door, work out on the track, and be nailed to the paddock to head to the paddock. “The Walker used to be a trainer, a groom and a hot walker, but now it becomes the whole event in itself,” Michael McCarthy, a trainer in journalism at horses, told Training Paulik Report. McCarthy admitted.
Despite all their antics, young thoroughbred horses gather in Kentucky to remind us how horses can get you out of a little bit of their own, demanding sympathy and courage. The chaotic nature of galloping makes us just lift our heads to another realm. It was the same thrill of having kids ask for pony rides at the county fair and eventually learned the courage and empathy necessary for riding, jumping and racing. It is a connection that can successfully leverage veteran therapy, or a way to learn patience.
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This is why wearing a dressed hat and bow and arrow to respect the status of horses in human society.
Because when the trumpet hears, connection is everything. For the derby, Rispoli says he won't force the news. "I'm pretty sure once he's ready to run, he'll let me know that it's time," Rispoli said.