Kentucky Derby

With the 2014 Kentucky close at hand lets again look back at some of the great races of the past, but we start with last year's race which was run on May 4th 2013 and won by ORB

In Case You Missed It

Yesterday was the 152nd running of the Melbourne Cup, in Melbourne Australia.  The annual race held the first Tuesday in November and was made worldwide famous by the movie/horse Phar Lap.

This year's race saw the favorite Fiorente, with jockey Damien Oliver, outrun 23 other contenders to win the coveted Melbourne Cup.

2013 Preakness Stakes (05/18/2013)

The 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Park in Baltimore MD saw the heavy favorite get a bad starting gate and then get squeezed and knocked off his game.  This left the door open for wire to wire winner Oxbow to runaway from the pack.

1989 Kentucky Derby

With the Kentucky Derby coming up this weekend May 4th, I want to look back at classic Derby races.

1989
The headline going in was Easy Goer being the favorite.  The reigning 2 Year old horse of the year is going to face Sunday Silence.  This was the beginning of a rivalry that saw Sunday Silence become 3 Year old horse of the  Year by winning the Derby and the Preakness (both times Easy Goer was runnerup) and runnerup to Easy Goer in the Belmont by 8 lengths.

Here is the upset as Sunday Silence puts away the field in the 115th running of the Kentucky Derby, May 6th 1989.

Offical Results

Finished	Post	Horse	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time / behind
1st		Sunday Silence	Pat Valenzuela		Hancock III, Gaillard & Whittingham	2:05
2nd		Easy Goer	Pat Day		Ogden Phipps
3rd		Awe Inspiring	Craig Perret		Ogden Mills Phipps
4th		Dansil	Larry Snyder		John A. Franks
5th		Hawkster	M. Castaneda		Mr. & Mrs. J.S. Meredith
6th		Northern Wolf	C. Ladner III		Deep Silver Stable
7th		Irish Actor	D. Howard		Tiffany Farms
8th		Houston	Laffit Pincay, Jr.		Beal, French, Jr. & Lukas
9th		Triple Buck	Jose Santos		Gary Marano
10th		Shy Tom	Chris Antley		Overbrook Farm
11th		Wind Splitter	D. Miller, Jr.		Randall Williams, Jr.
12th		Flying Continental	Corey Black		Jack Kent Cooke
13th		Clever Trevor	Don Pettinger		Cheri & Don McNeill
14th		Faultless Ensign	C. Decarlo		Anthony Tornettam et al.
15th		Western Playboy	Randy Romero		Nancy Vanier & Raymond Roncari

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