I wish Vegas would give the public odds on how long Rich Strike's story would last. It didn't take a turn to Cancel Town in the first 15 minutes after the race, but it did get there during trainer Eric Reed's 15 minutes of fame.
The trainer of the Kentucky Derby winning horse, who had the worst odds in the field and was a late addition, basked in one of the greatest upsets in the history of the sport for all of five days.
John Barr asked the trainer about a derogatory tweet sent from Reed.
You don't know how your account on the social networking site posted something distasteful and misogynistic. Or you don't know how to use a computer? After getting Gotcha, he made his account private.
If that wasn't your account, why did Marty McGee cite a source for the news that Rich Strike won't be racing in The Preakness?
Reed should accept that his detractors will view him as the horse trainer who won the Derby, and that he is a cult hero among the Fox News crowd.
There isn't much more that can be done with a guy with a horse trainer and Reagan conservative name. The owner of Mercury equine center is a fantasy football fanatic.
Vegas didn't give us odds on that either, so it was probably a good bet that the horse trainer from Kentucky was a clown.
Rich Strike's jockey was suspended for careless riding.
If you were to ask me a question about why Rich Strike's ride wouldn't age well, I'd give you a number of choices.
No, Rich Strike didn't have anything in his system that we know of, but jockey Sonny Leon did catch a suspension for careless riding in Ohio, his third ban for that specific violation since the fall and fifth overall in that time period, according to Yahoo Sports.
Most of the maneuvers that constitute careless riding are caused by interfering with another horse. Think of riding a competitor into the rail. Leon's agent excused it as aggressive riding and said jockeys are forced to make judgement calls.
Yes, whatever. The jockey was suspended for presenting false and altered documents from a physical examination to West Virginia stewards and for causing visible injuries to one of his mounts through misuse of the whip.
I'm not sure we should have expected well-vetted candidates from captain ass clown.
Rich Strike is the biggest loser. He didn't do anything wrong, but he doesn't have the mental capacity to fire off problematic messages.
His owner is a jackass, and his jockey is a serial rules violator. The world loves Milkshake Duck.
Trainers would put the mount out to pasture if it were as broken as the staff around Rich Strike.
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