Your winner, I guess. Image via Twitter.
Welcome to sports in 2019 and beyond.
The Kentucky Derby, a.k.a. the Fastest Two Minutes in Sports, was decided today well after the race had concluded by a video review of the race where it was determined that the horse that passed the pole first, Maximum Security, had “interfered with several horses” on his way to apparent victory.
There is a lot to unpack here, so let’s take the talking points in an appropriate order. So here we go:
If you had a ticket on Country House at 65-1, hey, congratulations. As the late Tom Petty once memorably sang, even the losers get lucky sometimes. On a holistic basis, though, it’s pretty hard to accept that the entire world had celebrated Maximum Security — the fastest horse on the track — as the winner, only to find out some indiscriminate and uncomfortable time later that, well, we’re giving the win to another horse, one you hadn’t even thought about.
Welcome to sports in 2019 and beyond.