kentucky derbiy history. so many story lines going in. one of the big story lines, the winner, johnny velazquez, a guy, future hall of fame jockey. he lost his ride earlier in the week. on friday he lost his ride. uncle mo, the pre-race favorite, scratched because of a stomach ailment. gets a call to replace robbie albarado on animal kingdom. albarado broke his nose earlier in the week and the horse s trainer and owners thought maybe it would be better to go with another jockey. they go with johnny velazquez. here he goes. heads out. 13th derby and races animal kingdom to victory. the 20-1 long shot, proving once again, t.j., that the pre-race favorite does not always win the kentucky derbiy. in fact, 2000, the pre-race favorite has won four times. he didn t know this horse at all. he was talking about it afterwards and jockeys are used to this because they race all the time. get put on horses at the last second. have to get with the trainer and find out horse s tendencies. if ther
velasquez who jockeyed the horse was supposed to ride uncle mo. he was then asked to ride animal kingdom because the person who was supposed to ride that horse ended up with an injury and had to scratch and doesn t be a part of it so it all worked out in the end but 20:1 long shot, animal kingdom made a few nice moves, ended up in the winner s circle. also exciting stuff last night, kind of, sort of, maybe. man manny pacquiao got rid of mosley, he had a car accident hours before the fight. he was shaken up after his suv was hit from behind. of course it didn t bother him that much, he won pretty much every round of the fight, it did go the distance, a unanimous
the kentucky derby. one of this year s favorites is dialled in. the weather channel s stephanie abrams is live for us at churchill downs. as i said last hour, she s dialed in. good to have her here. let s talk about another contender as well that was once the favorite. now scratched from this race. what s up with that? uncle mo had some g.i. problems and apparently he is not fully recovered. scratched yesterday. there was a full 20 horses, ponies if you will, running in the race. now since uncle mo is out it is down to 19. and they say that the paper this morning is basically saying it is anyone s race at this point. now, there is a chance of a stray shower. everyonetwittering what s the forecast. too close to call. we have to tune in a couple of hours before the race and then we can give you a better idea. but still with those pop-up hit and miss thunderstorms, it is kind of hard to tell until you are right before the race. it does look like the rain will hold off on the morning rac