Fierceness is the 2024 Kentucky Derby favorite, but how often does the favorite win?
Fierceness was installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite, and the favorite wins about a third of the time in the Kentucky Derby.
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Fierceness was installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite, and the favorite wins about a third of the time in the Kentucky Derby.
As strange as it may sound, Secretariat was a far better horse during his post-Triple Crown days, according to Turcotte.
Even after Secretariat unleashed a jaw-dropping rush from last to the lead on the first turn of the 1973 Preakness (G1), jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. figured he could win the middle jewel of the Triple Crown with Sham.
At the 99th Run for the Roses, the Kentucky Derby record was shattered by a three-year-old demi-god (maybe not so demi, some would say) named Secretariat.
A horse from heaven once put down the marker that mortal animals — if they could do such a thing — would think beyond comprehension. That is legacy of Secretariat.