This Saturday is the running of the Kentucky Derby. I do not follow horse racing except for the three races of the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby, The Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. After the Derby there will be the usual speculation if the horse can win the Triple Crown, a feat that has not been accomplished since Affirmed did it in 1978. If the Derby winner does not win the Preakness then horse racing goes back to the periphery until next year’s Derby. As with everything else the Derby coverage has gotten overblown, for a race that lasts a couple of minutes the television coverage is going to last two hours which is an hour longer than it should be. I hope the extra hour is used to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Secretariat’s “Run for the Roses” and his eventual run to the 1973 Triple Crown. Even though I was not born during his historic run, I never get tired of seeing Sercretariat’s obliteration of the field at the Belmont.
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