* Me, liking security? Duh.
UPDATE 4 May 2019 18:54: Yay, Maximum Security. He was on sale in December for $16,000 (!!!) and just won the $3M purse. I wish I tossed a couple bucks on Country House at 65-1 who came in second. Yowza.
UPDATE 4 May 2019 19:15: Oh good grief - the claim of foul against Maximum Security is nothing but sour grapes. There's no way that Maximum Security impeded Country House. And Country House's owner was a (ahem) Maximum Douchebag when he was interviewed.
UPDATE 4 May 2019 19:22: It looks like Maximum Douchebag was successful. I call foul - it sure doesn't look like a foul to me (heck, Maximum Security was ahead the whole race). There's no way you can say that Country House "won" the Kentucky Derby.
On the plus side, at least I'm not a bookie, having to pay off all those 65-1 bets.
UPDATE 4 May 2019 20:58: Holy cow, Facebook and Twitter are blowing up over this. It's becoming the George Brett Pine Tar incident of horse racing. People will be talking about this for the next fifty years. The Derby folks clearly are not smart enough to know that they need to protect their brand from ultra competitive participants. Country House's owner threw a Hail Mary pass, and there was no downside to him in doing so. There sure was a downside for the Derby folks in letting him get away with it. Boy, howdy.
4 comments:
Don't know about you, but I feel the race was stolen.
George, I don't think that you're the only one.
You don't think things involving gambling may, just may, be fixed?
This was not a ruling by the "Derby folks". It was a ruling by stewards of the KY state racing commission.
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