Kentucky Derby 2024 Recap and Review

Hi everyone, I'm Brad Monday Morning Handicap and this is the Kentucky Derby replay edition for

2024

. My first pick was catch freedom number four. I chose not to choose the favorite fierceness. I just thought his running style wasn't going to be a good fit. Another 20 or 19 horses in the race covered a mile and a quarter. I thought they would chase him for the lead. Number two was Sierra Leon, a horse that was my most likely winner, but I didn't want to take him because he would be short. The odds and also his racing style can be difficult in a field like this, coming from way back and having to overtake 19 other runners, so I chose number four who had a similar racing style to Sier Leon.

I just thought he might be a little closer. be in front and exit the Four Holes instead of the two be able to have a cleaner trip at the beginning of the race be in front of number two, who I thought was the better closer, but I thought number two would have more problems trip, so so I went with number four with Flavy and Pratt grabbing the freedom and let's look at the race and see how it went. He will have a blue shirt and a blue cap. I see that it breaks quite well, here are the two Sierra Leóns retreating our four.

You're getting ahead of him, which is what you'd expect to stay close to the rail so he doesn't go wide in the turns, at least not yet to save some ground. It seems that here maybe the jockey pulls a little to leave this. The horse passes in front of them, but still a few meters away from Sierra León. Here we are located near the railing. There are no horses directly in front of us, perhaps getting a little pushback, but a seemingly nice and comfortable jockey just sitting there not doing much. At the end of this turn, he begins to ask his horse to move forward a little.

Looks like he maybe he runs into a little traffic here, going up again. Sier Leon, follow my cursor back here with the black shirt, our horse is still in front of him. for four five stretches still traveling gently fractions up here a little fast early slowed it down a little 22 basically 23 and then 23 and a half for the next quarter mile a little fast not too bad honestly hit our horse here with the blue shirt again, I remember starting to ask to go. Sierra Leone moves next to him, so now they are even more obviously silvery. Leon had to expend a little energy to catch up with our horse and is widening the turn, so our horse runs a shorter distance. s Leon on the outside entering the straight widening our horse here on the inside of the blue shirt you can see that he is very dirty, he is getting a lot of kicks saving ground, he is chasing the leader, he just can't catch up to him. he seems to be running at the same speed right now without gaining any ground, it seems like he has a little kick here, our horse, but he just won't be able to pass these horses that end up finishing one through three in a good second. finish in one place by about two lengths or not finish in second place, finish in fourth place by a margin of two lengths, so our horse ran a great race, saved a lot of ground, just wasn't as fast as the other horses today , especially late, again.

I ran a solid race. I think the owners and trainers are happy with that performance. Fourth place by two lengths is not bad. The Kentucky Derby is the biggest race for three-year-olds in North America, perhaps arguably the world, but we'll take another look down the stretch. run here there's fierceness the betting favorite is fading he's had enough too fast too early our horse here just running down the rail Jo is asking him but he can't catch him sier Leon dragging a little and hitting the Japanese Invader um Forever Young, he's closing pretty well, maybe he could have won if Sierra Leon hadn't hit him so hard, but bumps in horse racing happen and here's the end, the three of them end up winning this inside horse, Mystic Dan, there's the Stop and it's a close photo. finish, you can google it, but our horse finished fourth, it's not a disgrace, I'm very happy with the selection, he had a good trip, I gave him a chance, he just wasn't the best today and that's okay, but I hope someone more have been lucky and um.

The next video I'll post will probably be part four of how to read the racing form, so we're looking forward to it and we hope anyone watches it, thank you.