{"id":1470267,"date":"2022-05-10T13:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470267"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:29:40","slug":"fact-check-did-rich-strikes-jockey-turn-down-an-invitation-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-rich-strikes-jockey-turn-down-an-invitation-to-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Rich Strike\u2019s Jockey Turn Down An Invitation To The White House?"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-rich-strikes-jockey-turn-down-an-invitation-to-the-white-house%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=1470267&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><\/div>\n<p><span>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=5075115775902841&#038;set=a.105045269576608&#038;type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a><\/span><span> claims the Kentucky Derby-winning horse jockey Sonny Leon turned down an invitation to the White House by saying, \u201cIf I wanted to see a horse\u2019s ass I would have came in second.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Leon making such a remark.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leon and the horse Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, overcoming 80-1 odds against the pair, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/07\/1097436021\/kentucky-derby-upset-rich-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>. The improbable win is the second-largest upset in the race\u2019s history and the largest since 1913, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook claims that shortly after the race Leon declined an invitation to the White House by saying, \u201c<span>If I wanted to see a horse\u2019s ass I would have came in second.\u201d <\/span>The same quote also circulated on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TravisAllen02\/status\/1523077237238800384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, with one tweet receiving over 154,000 likes and 22,000 retweets. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/09\/11\/fact-check-andy-beshear-2020-kentucky-derby-mask\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Does This Photo Show Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear At The 2020 Kentucky Derby Without A Mask?)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>There is, however, no record of Leon making the statement. Check Your Fact found no credible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=sonny+leon+white+house+invitation+&#038;biw=1536&#038;bih=722&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sxsrf=ALiCzsYHWQJxT2WKhWzcmG6QTPVKoE8Afw%3A1652193920191&#038;ei=gHp6YrCzC6GMggfzn76wBw&#038;ved=0ahUKEwiw89n9ldX3AhUhhuAKHfOPD3YQ4dUDCA0&#038;uact=5&#038;oq=sonny+leon+white+house+invitation+&#038;gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LW5ld3MQAzoECAAQDToGCAAQDRAeOggIABAIEA0QHlCkHlizNmCWN2gIcAB4AIABe4gBrQ2SAQQyMi4xmAEAoAEBwAEB&#038;sclient=gws-wiz-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports<\/a> suggesting the White House extended an invitation or that the jockey made such a remark. The post offers no source to corroborate its claim. Leon does not appear to have mentioned or alluded to politics in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/horses\/news\/jockey-quotes-from-the-148th-running-of-the-kentucky-derby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comments<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/09\/sport\/kentucky-derby-sonny-leon-rich-strike-jockey\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after<\/a> the race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An internet search reveals the quote has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Jokes\/comments\/8q1of7\/in_breaking_news_triple_crown_winner_justify_has\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attributed<\/a> to other people in the past. In 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/03\/fact-check-medina-spirit-jockey-john-velazquez-derby-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> debunked a claim that alleged horse jockey John Velazquez made the same comment after winning the Kentucky Derby.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims the Kentucky Derby-winning horse jockey Sonny Leon turned down an invitation to the White House by saying, \u201cIf I wanted to see a horse\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1482339,"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-1470267","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\/1470267","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\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}