I've never seen anything like this!!

You can see Golden Tempo was told to stalk Renegade.
Both were well back in the pack.
Renegade started his charge before Golden Tempo did.
When I watched it live, I can see both charging, wondering if there was enough track for them to overtake.
Crazy come back for both.

Watch overhead again.
Golden Tempo was 9 wide.
He probably ran an extra quarter mile and still won.

The jockey riding Renegade is Irad Ortiz Jr, the brother of Jose Ortiz who rode Golden Tempo to victory. When they cross the finish line the men were almost close enough to hold hands!! What an outstanding race!

and fell way back. at the end they were head and head. i'd watch him in future races.

another was great white , the big grey that was scratched at the gate. looked very strong.

taller than most of the rest of the field and, worse yet, worried he'd been badly injured in that fall. But I read he's doing well and will recover.

And his jockey will be sad to have missed participating but glad he didn't have 1370 pounds of gorgeous grey horse on land top of him.

i'm optimistic that that crowd and large number of runners spooked him. he will be ok.

3…2…1…

...from the best tracks "Out of the most professional 23 handicappers, NOT ONE of them picked 2 out of the 4 winning horses."
( Superfecta) I'm not being mean but..goes to show..WAY too many variables.

I think his favorite part was spending the day before "studying."

Don't think it was more than 50% of the time, but pretty often I walked out with more money in my pocket randomly picking on names I liked than he did after all his figuring. He would always sort of shake his head.

To give him credit, he always had way more wins -- more winners and exotic bets -- but I'd hit one of those long shots and wipe out my losses and more.

I hope he runs as well in the next two races.

It was smart to keep him out of that huge pack when they broke. His jockey and trainer must have known he had another gear to kick in to at the end.