Legitimate won the 2020 Kentucky Derby.Darron Cummings/Associated Press
Tiz the Law headed to Churchill Downs chasing the Triple Crown, but Legitimate ruined these aspirations with a enormous bustle Saturday on the 2020 Kentucky Derby.
Legitimate earned a memoir-tying sixth Derby take for trainer Bob Baffert, and jockey John Velazquez grabbed his third profession victory within the Speed for the Roses. Legitimate galloped to the lead by the clubhouse turn and stayed up front to the lift out.
Finishing the 1¼-mile note in 2: 00.61, Legitimate posted the seventh-fastest successful time in Kentucky Derby historical previous.
Tiz the Law, Mr. Enormous Knowledge, Honor A. P. and Max Participant followed Legitimate to the line. Corpulent results are below.
2020 Kentucky Derby Results
1. Legitimate; $1.86 million
2. Tiz the Law (1¼ lengths)
3. Mr. Enormous Knowledge (3¼ lengths)
4. Honor A. P. (5 lengths)
5. Max Participant (7 lengths)
6. Storm the Court docket (9 lengths)
7. Enforceable (10¼ lengths)
8. Contemporary york Traffic (13¾ lengths)
9. Necker Island (14¾ lengths)
10. Major Fed (15¾ lengths)
11. Sole Volante (16¾ lengths)
12. Winning Influence (21½ lengths)
13. Money Strikes (22¼ lengths)
14. Attachment Rate (24 lengths)
15. South Bend (25¾ lengths)
16. Finnick the Fierce (scratched)
17. King Guillermo (scratched)
18. Thousand Words (scratched)
Kentucky Derby Highlights
Between a sluggish ruin and a favored expectation he would move on the stretch, Legitimate did no longer provide a enormous first influence.
Lawful thing or no longer it’s no longer what mattered.
Ridden by Velazquez—a Hall of Status jockey—Legitimate cruised to the lead and overtook Contemporary york Traffic sooner than the clubhouse turn. Tiz the Law and rider Manny Franco followed shut on the abet of, within the ruin pulling alongside Legitimate on the closing turn.
It gave the influence the stretch would note expectations; Tiz the Law had an opportunity to present his outstanding tempo. Plus, Legitimate’s walk had matched his reputation, and here is the build he’d move.
Velazquez, despite the proven fact that, performed it completely.
“I waited except [Tiz the Law] got staunch next to me,” he said within the press conference. “After I went left?handed this horse replied so comely. It became once worship, ‘Oh, yeah, come and accumulate me.'”
Legitimate grew to change into the first gate-to-wire winner since Battle Emblem—also a Baffert trainee—in 2002.
Legitimate’s triumph meant Baffert matched legendary trainer Ben Jones atop the profession Kentucky Derby wins listing.
Baffert, despite the proven fact that, became once speedily to deflect the glory.
“I’ve been fortunate to dangle these enormous jockeys take these races,” Baffert said, per Gary B. Graves of the Associated Press. “But that became once won by Johnny. That walk will lunge down as one among the pause, comely the vogue he handled a horse worship him.”
Velazquez followed suit and praised Legitimate’s effort, noting the horse consistently had extra to give.
“We can concept no topic we prefer. And if the horse doesn’t acknowledge to the issues you are making an are attempting to help out, or no longer it’s price it,” he said, in line with the submit-walk transcript. “We can concept no topic we prefer, but we dangle got to give the credit rating to the horse, it doesn’t topic what.”
Legitimate’s take netted $1.86 million of the $3 million purse.
Tiz the Law ($600,000), Mr. Enormous Knowledge ($300,000), Honor A. P. ($150,000) and Max Participant ($150,000) also achieved within the money.
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