In Result No One Saw Coming, Rich Strike’s Kentucky Derby Win Helps Redeem Racing - Sports Illustrated

Big-name jockeys and owners and exiled trainers were outdone and outshone by a group of racing no-names who brought a storybook finish Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Jeff Roberson/Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Thoroughbred racing is a mess of a sport, but it finds incredible, preposterous ways to redeem itself. It occasionally interrupts raging controversies … [+10898 chars]

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