From dead last, Gato del Sol takes the roses
The favorites that did not fall out before last Saturday's Kentucky Derby fell back during it. Gato del Sol, a 21-1 shot, went into the first turn last and passed 18 horses to win the Derby. It was hardly a classic one: the "greatest two minutes in sport" ran over this year by more than a couple of seconds. Yet Kentuckians were moved all the same, some to tears.
They thought of Bull Hancock, the late master of Claiborne Farm, the preeminent breeder of Thoroughbred racing,...
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