Maddux Sports Blog

The evening will be all about basketball of course, but before we get there there is a whole lot of horse racing to get through. This is the most active single day so far en route to the Kentucky Derby with the Santa Anita Derby, Illinois Derby, and Wood Memorial all going, and all going to figure into the Derby picture. They are all on NBC today, too, starting at 5:00 ET. I’ll look ahead to all of those in a second, but before I do I need to talk about the race I am watching right now.

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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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