Maddux Sports Blog

It’s been several hours since the race ended, so my thoughts have had time to percolate. Here’s what I’m thinking:

I owe it to Rachel Alexandra to say that I was impressed. She didn’t like the track, but she still managed to get to the lead surprisingly easily and hold it right to the end. It wasn’t the race that her fans was hoping she had, but at least she came through for the win. A filly hadn’t done that since 1924, so she deserves a world of credit.

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I love a lot of sports, but none more than horse racing. It has everything – drama, speed, emotion, challenge, intrigue, and more puzzles than a guy could solve in a lifetime. The Kentucky Derby is, in my humble but strong opinion, the best sporting event in existence. Winning it is so hard that it’s virtually impossible, yet everyone who has ever owned a horse dreams of winning it. I’ll be heading to my second Kentucky Derby in May (I saw Grindstone win in 1996), and taking my wife to her first. In anticipation of that spectacular trip I will periodically check in with the five horses that are pointed at the Derby that have me most excited. The road from here to there is long and winding, so it is entirely possible that the horse I like best in the race in May is one I have never heard of. Curlin didn’t hit the track for the first time until later than this.

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