'I didn't have an idea he could win the derby, the Kentucky Derby. But I had a very good feeling with him,' jockey Sonny Leon said. He thought the horse could finish among the top 10, but 'didn't expect he could really do it. Wow. Unbelievable.'
"I didn't have an idea he could win the derby, the Kentucky Derby. But I had a very good feeling with him," Leon told CNN's Brianna Keilar and John Avlon Monday. Leon thought the horse could finish among the top 10,"but I didn't expect he could really do it. Wow. Unbelievable," he said.Rich Strike wasn't even added to the field until Friday, when another horse pulled out of the race. He was the biggest long-shot in the 20-horse field.
Leon gradually wove him through, and it was only in the final seconds that Rich Strike took the lead. He considered leaving the horse business after tragedy struck. Now this trainer just won the Kentucky DerbyThe horse had the worst slot, starting from the far outside gate 20, but Leon used it to his advantage, he said."I had a very good view behind them," Leon said, so he stayed calm and concentrated and looked for his opening.
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