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Carrera 12 in Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 3 attracts more than 150,000 people, the greatest assistance for a live sporting event in the United States.
Racing horses stir something deep in us. Whether you are watching or betting, this 151st Kentucky Derby race is a time to appreciate the most indispensable animal in human civilization: the horse.
It all started 4,200 years ago in the Bronze Age when the Shintashta culture domesticated the horses and extended rapidly by Eurasia. In human care, the horses raised more successful, according to the Smithsonian. With horses, people plant crops, established the distant corners of the world and forged epic moments of human history. A brown mare led Paul Revere to Lexington on April 18, 1775. Without horse, without the United States.
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Of course, the colts in Kentucky’s derby are class tricks and you can track the paternity of the bloodline of each of them until 1700.
But I have a secret to tell you about these three years. They can be naughty boys.
When you see some of the mischief, you must marvel with the taking and consumption of the association that has so crucial for human history.
It is not easy.
Mage (L), mounted by the rider Javier Castellano, takes the outside of the four -duration curve, the 149th Kentucky derby race in Churchill Downs on May 6, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Andy Lyons/Getty images)
Burnham Square is, who exercises with the neck in morning training, and needs more of half a mile to “relax” and establish himself.
“He is a bit strong. Yes, he tries to bite the Pony Rider. And the pony. And it’s a little clown,” said Mark Cutler’s exercise rider to Fanduel TV. “But it is not bad at all, it has really grown in recent months.”
The natural spirits that would terrorize moms and the daughter of the world of the entertainment world laugh with a racing barn.
As for the man of gray sand, the owner Griffin Johnson says that “he is not as crazy as what his father can be, but definitely brought personality and nonsense.” Sandman’s Sire Tapit, now 24 years old, is a peculiar and intelligent gray whose offspring has won more than $ 216 million on the track. Sandman is his image, and has already earned around one million dollars. Peculiarities are tolerated with that successful child. In the barn, Sandman “is always having a good time and makes it easy to love sport,” Johnson said in an interview with Andie Biancone.
Of course, they are not all “above” as the riders say. The battle of coal, of Louisiana, is the relaxed type. “If you are not lying, it is common in the back of your position relaxing.” He knows when the game time is, “said his coach Lonnie Briley to Louisville Messaging diary.
Personality counts because on the day of the race, anything can happen. Fortune favors the long -term horse, but the horse has to want victory.
Training training of the track trajectory in preparation for the 149th operation of the Kentucky derby in Churchill Downs on May 5, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo of Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
Take journalism, a child of Curlin whose speed figures in his victories in several races This spring were surprising. In Santa Anita on April 5, journalism lurked in the rail, at the back of the pack. Jockey Umberto Rispoli was standing in the stirrups with straight and high knees, the position takes the riders when they are not yet asking the horse a real speed. Then, in the post of seven sixteen, he approached the disaster. The journalism was dragged behind one horse, beaten by another, but “he leaned down in La Clara and turned three wide in the section” as expressed by the official Equibase list. Rispoli requested power in Hometretch and journalism increased to overcome his rival Baeza, for almost 2 lengths. They will meet again in the derby.
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In Kentucky, anything can happen. Large and strong crowds exert great pressure on horses. Kentucky Derby corridors arrived days ago to practice the load at the door, exercise on the track and be glued to the Walkover to the paddock. “The Walkover used to be coaches, bride and groom and hotwalkers, but now it has become this whole event in its own right,” said Horse Journalism coach Michael McCarthy al Paulick report. Each horse has 30-50 people “, so they only expect them to arrive at the paddock without hurting anyone,” McCarthy admitted.
Despite all their clown, the pure young people gathered in Kentucky remind us of how horses can get you a bit of yourself, demanding empathy and courage. The disagreement and stimulating of galloping a horse lifts us simple bipeds in another kingdom. Here is the same emotion that keeps children asking for walks in Pony at the County Fair and any learning of courage and empathy necessary to drive, jump and run. It is the connection that can be so successful for veterans therapy, or simply as a way of learning patience.
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It is the reason that elegant hats and arch used to honor the state of the horse in human society.
By the time the trumpet sounds, the connection is everything. For the derby, Rispoli says he won the journalism of the force. “I am quite sure that once I am ready to run, it will make me understand what is time to go,” Rispoli said.