{"id":1467609,"date":"2022-05-07T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T00:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467609"},"modified":"2022-05-07T20:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T00:29:39","slug":"the-longest-shot-has-won-80-1-rich-strike-wins-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-longest-shot-has-won-80-1-rich-strike-wins-kentucky-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Longest Shot Has Won!\u2019: 80-1 Rich Strike Wins Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-longest-shot-has-won-80-1-rich-strike-wins-kentucky-derby%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467609&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1395991200.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The longest of long shots shocked the crowd at Churchill Downs to win the Kentucky Derby Saturday in the second-biggest upset in the history of the storied race.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Strike, which closed at 80-1 odds \u2013 the longest of any horse in the field of 20 \u2013 won by 3\/4 of a length over Epicenter and third-place finisher Zandon in the 148th running of the legendary race. The victory left more than 100,000 mint julep-sipping spectators stunned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how (to put the win into words). I fell down in the paddock when he hit the wire. I about passed out. I\u2019m so happy,\u201d trainer Eric Reed said. \u201cThis is something, you know, is the reason everybody does this, because we\u2019re not supposed to be here, but I knew this horse loved the track, and we\u2019ve been training so good all year.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTHE LONGEST SHOT HAS WON THE KENTUCKY DERBY! RICH STRIKE HAS DONE IT!\u201d \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCSports<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VfNiil1UkP\">pic.twitter.com\/VfNiil1UkP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1523077839758655491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was the first Kentucky Derby win for both trainer Reed and jockey Sonny Leon.<\/p>\n<p>The only time a horse overcame longer odds to win the race known as \u201cThe Run for the Roses\u201d was in 1913, when Donerail triumphed after closing as a 91-1 longshot.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cRich Strike wins <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">the Kentucky Derby<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> at 80-1!\u201d tweeted sports commentator Clay Travis. \u201cOne of the biggest underdog winners ever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rich Strike was only added to the field Friday after Ethereal Road dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Trump was among the spectators, becoming the\u00a0first former president to attend the Kentucky Derby since 2000, when George H.W. Bush attended. Former President Richard Nixon is the only president to attend the race while in office, watching in 1969 when Majestic Prince won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Speculation Trump would attend began last month, when\u00a0New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted out\u00a0a copy of an invitation to attend a Derby-day event hosted by the PAC \u201cMAGA, Again!\u201d\u00a0The invitation said the PAC, along with board of directors chair\u00a0Pam Bondi,\u00a0national finance chair\u00a0Kimberly Guilfoyle, Richard Grenell and Matt Whitaker\u00a0\u201cinvite you to the Kentucky Derby with special guest President Donald J. Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest of long shots shocked the crowd at Churchill Downs to win the Kentucky Derby Saturday in the second-biggest upset in the history of the storied race.Rich Strike, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1481985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}