Rich Strike is a pure deep closer with little in the way of tactical speed, emulating the style of his sire, Keen Ice. Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Epicenter, Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: White Abarrio, Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Mo Donegal. But he was harried through much of the race by Frosted, who put his head in front turning for home before Pharoah repelled him. As the longest shot on the board in a field of 20 horses at 80-1, Rich Strike took advantage of a crafty ride from Sonny Leon to charge past Epicenter (Not This Time) and Zandon (Upstart) in deep stretch to pull off the second biggest upset in Derby history with Donerail at 91-1 in 1913 serving as the biggest longshot winner. Naturally, this incident drew a lot of attention as this type of behavior isn't exactly common on the Kentucky Derby stage. Like the Thoroughbreds trainer, it was his first Derby. Longines Breeders' Cup Classic participant - 2022. He was trained by Eric R. Reed of RED TR-Racing, LLC and clearly well. Lukas, who won Friday's Kentucky Oaks with Secret Oath, said he felt Ethereal Road had not shown the same energy over the last couple of days. Curlin became a classic sire with his very first crop, as Palace Malice captured the 2013 Belmont. Sonny Leon will have the mount on the colt, who was claimed by Reed for $30,000 after Either way, he pulled off the big upset and endeared himself to racing fans everywhere with his improbable victory. Become a Licensee | Gold Strike is out of the unraced Brassy Gold, by. The dam side of Rich Strikes pedigree is even more promising. Keen Ice competed in more Road to the Kentucky Derby scoring events than Rich Strike did, but he only scored 22 points one point more than Rich Strike. "You go from the worst of the worst to the best of the best in this business.". Then, I don't really remember what happened except my back gave out on me. He gains weight after every race and I don't think we've gotten to the bottom of him.. Get the days top sports headlines and breaking news delivered to your inbox by subscribing here. Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. Keen Ices sire is Breeders Cup Classic-winning Hall of Famer Curlin, 4. The race, which was run at a break-neck pace, came down to the wire. And if a movie could been made from this year's Run for the Roses, who would play Reed? Before Rich Strike came along, Gold Strike was a graded producer thanks to her daughter Llanarmon. Gold Strike ran only twice in 2006, returning with a second in the Hendrie (G3). Gold Strike went through the same sale in 2019, bringing only $1,700. He calls this That colt couldn't be a more perfect reminder for Clements head girls' basketball Coach Shane Childress of how anything can be accomplished. When I saw that move at the quarter pole, I told my dad [Herbert] that might get us on the board, Reed said. Gold Strike was Canadas champion three-year-old filly of 2005, 8. He looks great this morning. I just kept seeing him in my head come up the rail.. I couldn't sleep last night, Reed said after achieving his first Grade I victory and second graded victory in a career that began in 1985. I was happy for my crew and so proud that they got to make the walk [over to the paddock for the Derby].. This is something, you know, is the reason everybody does this, because were not supposed to be here, but I knew this horse loved the track, and weve been training so good all year, he also said. Rich Strike is a gelding (a horse of either sex that has been castrated) who was born in 2004, while Smart Strike is a Thoroughbred stallion (an entire male horse) born in 1999. Coady Photography | A male horse UNDER the age of FOUR YEARS is called a COLT, especially an INTACT male horse. The second-biggest longshot winner (80-1) in the history of the Kentucky Derby , (via @NBCSports)pic.twitter.com/AzDBvIhXRQ, SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 7, 2022. After crossing the finish line, it appears that the winning horse was biting other horses around him. Keen Ice is a son of Curlin, who at one time was the highest-earning North American Thoroughbred. 21, and broke from Ethereal Roads former No. Churchill Downs hosted the Kentucky Derby (known for its hats!) I fell down in the paddock when he hit the wire. 1), Belmont S. Presented by NYRA Bets (Gr. Rich Strikes third dam is by a full brother to Mr. Prospector, 11. Wij, Yahoo, maken deel uit van de Yahoo-merkenfamilie. Rich Strike 'Looking Great' After Derby Shocker. The Ontario-bred filly captured the 2013 Natalma (G2) and 2014 Carotene S., both on turf, and she placed in three other stakes including the Woodbine Oaks. 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Mine That Bird skimmed the rail to his 50-1 upset in 2009, and Rich Strike found an inside path at an even bigger 80-1. Sonny Leon will have the mount on the colt,who was claimed by Reed for $30,000 after winning a maiden race at Churchillgoing a mile in September by 17 1/4lengths. Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. The winners share was $1,860,000 and improved Rich Strikes earnings to $1,971,289 with a record of 8-2-0-3. Here are some other facts to know about the underdog champion of this years race. As noted in the pedigree fun facts for the 2022 Derby field, Rich Strike belongs to the family labeled as number 9. Jockey: Sonny Leon Start With Your Sensual Energy, Why Is Hoda Kotb Not on the Today Show This Week? Trainer: Eric R. Reed Trainer Eric Reed was still in slight shockMay 6 after the 9 a.m. Hence Keen Ice is inbred to Deputy Minister, counting him as an ancestor via both Curlin and Awesome Again. At four this morning I was wondering if this was real or if it was a dream. She characterized the outburst she saw from Rich Strike as typically 'studdish,' a bit of horse talk for aggressive male horse behavior, including nipping and herding mares, female horses. He had plenty of chances to take those horses to race himself, and he turned them down. I owe all this to him; he's the only reason I'm a horse trainer. "After that barn fire I thought I might never train again," he said. Leon began his racing career in 2015. var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'none';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = '';var pfBtVersion='1';(function(){var js, pf;pf = document.createElement('script');pf.type = 'text/javascript';if ('https:' === document.location.protocol){js='https://pf-cdn.printfriendly.com/ssl/main.js'}else{js='http://cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js'}pf.src=js;document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})();Print Friendly, Send us your feedback | Rich Strike is owned by Team Valor International and mainly competes in flat P and Search for Gold are sons of unbeaten juvenile, Panning for Golds dam, Apple Pan Dowdy, is by Laurel track record-setter. Rich Strike was produced by Canadian champion Gold Strike, a Smart Strike mare, who won the 1 1/16-mile Selene S. (G3) and 1 1/8-mile Woodbine Oaks back when Woodbine had a dirt track installed. This story was posted in Top News and tagged Chad Brown, Epicenter, Kentucky Derby, Messier, Preakness, Rich Strike, Simplification, Steve Asmussen, Taiba, Tim Yakteen, Zandon. Gold Strikes dam is by a Fountain of Youth winner, 10. Only Donerail in 1913 had a higher payout of $184.90. To keep the connection together, Curlin's sire is Smart Strike, the sire of Gold Strike, Rich Strike's dam. Rich Strike works at Keeneland April 16, 2022 (Coady Photography). Donerail, the 1913 winner, went off at 99-1 odds. All three of his races this year have come on Turfway Parks Tapeta surface, finishing third, fourth and third. He'd conditioned Master Derby, who won the Preakness. 1), Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Gr. English Channel sired V. E. Day, the 2014 Travers hero, out of a Deputy Minister mare. Keen Ice skipped the Preakness (G1) and tried again in the Belmont (G1), performing better to take third. Rich Strike is one rich horse no pun intended. Keen Ice upset American Pharoah in the 1 1/4-mile Travers, 3. You get one like this in a lifetime and you have to protect him.. She is by, Both Mr. Updated Sat., May 7, 2022 at 7:57 p.m. LEXINGTON, Ky. Rich Strike, the winner of the 148th Kentucky Derby, wasnt even in the field until Friday. She was sidelined for the rest of the season, but had done enough to win the Sovereign Award. Rich Strike returned $163.60, $74.20 and $29.40. Although Keen Ice was unable to beat American Pharoah again, checking in a distant fourth in the. Red Bank, NJ 07701, p: (732) 747-8060 Strike beat all the odds (80-1) to take the top spot, and was ridden by jockey Sonny Leon. He didn't run terrible but he just wasn't himself. Bold Commander has made his mark as the damsire of 1982 Belmont conqueror and Horse of the Year Conquistador Cielo (by Mr. Prospector). In 2016, Reeds farm, Mercury Equine Center, lost 23 horses in a barn fire. The outrider was aggressive towards the horse, Another Bold Commander mare is the granddam of the aforementioned Black Tie Affair, the Breeders Cup Classic-winning Horse of the Year in 1991. Rich Strike Jason Frakes: 502-582-4046; jfrakes@courier-journal.com; Twitter: @KentuckyDerbyCJ. I'm not going to do a whole lot with him and I don't like to run back quick. ", MORE: Who is Sonny Leon? Then we went a step further than we could have dreamed.. He has avidly trained in Kentucky with his deep closer style. WebRich Strike is a 4 year old colt and has raced from 2021 to 2022. Hed made seven starts, with one win and three shows. Data Privacy | He wouldn't travel, because of the kids. Aside from Curlin, Smart Strike has sired such champion sons as Lookin at Lucky and English Channel, both successful sires themselves. But on the final stretch, 80-1 longshot Rich Strike outran favorites Zandon and Epicenter by less than a length to earn one of the most improbable Kentucky Derby wins in history. The horse won a $51,500 maiden claiming race last in Sept. 2021, which he took by 17 lengths at 10-1 odds. Rich Strike is closely inbred to Smart Strike, sire of Curlin and Gold Strike, 7. 20 post position, on the far outside of Churchill Downs new 20-horse gate. 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At the time of the sale he had been entered in a low-level claiming race by his former owner, Calumet Farm, which has won a record eight Derbys. About CDI | I'm going to stick around for a while. You have to go back to the British mare Young Whiteneck (born in 1739) to find where their branches converge. Rich Strike traces to the same family as the 1945 Kentucky Derby winner. The chain of Where a long rest proved perfect for Proxy, a 20-day turnaround for Rich Strike (2-1) from a fourth-place finish in the Breeders Cup Classic was not. Next on the agenda most likely will be Reed's first trip to Pimlico and a shot at the GI Preakness S. May 21. So, it would just seem that Rich Strike is just an aggressive horse. May 7, 2022 MORE: Horses to win at both Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Rich Strike actually has two close doses of Smart Strike in his pedigree, since Smart Strike is the sire of Curlin and the grandsire of Keen Ice. Remember Ben with a gift to Thoroughbred aftercare, Subscribe for FREE to the Daily PDF or the News Alerts, Home Archive Top News Rich Strike 'Looking Great' After Derby Shocker, Rich Strike with trainer Eric Reed (second from right) and the rest of his team Sunday morning |Coady Photography. Rich The 148th Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, Rich Strike, will not be making an overseas trip to Dubai this year, his owner RED TR-Racing's Rick Dawson, confirmed in a Facebook Post Feb. 27. *All statistics on this page include results from all countries. Kentucky Derby 2022:Live updates on favorites, odds, races and more at Churchill Downs. Fourth in that Travers was Upstart, sire of Zandon, the third-placer behind Rich Strike in the 2022 Derby. Note that several other Derby heroes come from subsets of the number 9 family that are differentiated by letters. I am going to talk with the owner in the next two days and a make a decision on whether to go to the Preakness or to go home.. We went to New Orleans to try one of the first preps (the Gun Runner Stakes), ran into the monster Epicenter. Curlins other top performers include the Eclipse Award-winning fillies Stellar Wind and Malathaat, and a pair of Breeders Cup champions that took on Justify in the 2018 Triple Crown races: Good Magic, who finished second in the Kentucky Derby; and Vino Rosso, fourth in the Belmont. According to Americas Best Racing, he has been the leading rider at Mahoning Valley Race Course in Youngstown, Ohio, for the past three years. Smart Strikes own stud record reads like a whos who of accomplished racehorses from the first two decades of the 2000s, including Preakness winner Lookin at Lucky and Breeders Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner Battle of Midway, who placed third in the Kentucky Derby. However, Rich Strike stole the show himself with his post-race antics. All Rights Reserved. A $2 win bet paid $163.60. 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