If you've followed my posts, you'll know that we have a couple of horses - mostly my wife's and daughter's. Still, we are a household of horse lovers.

We tuned into the Kentucky Derby this afternoon and were absolutely stunned by the running of Mine That Bird (MTB).

Soon after coming out of the gate he got squished back by the two adjacent horses and ended up something like 15 lengths behind the entire pack - so far that I had commented that the horse must have been hurt.

The announcer was saying that a horse was coming up fast on the inside. My daughter kept saying that it was that last place horse, but I didn't believe her.

The horse wove his way through the pack and shot out in the lead crossing the finish line 6 lengths ahead of the rest of the pack.

He was a 50:1 odds non-favorite. Afterward I read a pre-comment from someone saying that MTB was "too slow to be a factor".

I suspect you'll see a movie come out of this.

One question that came out of it -- how does a gelding (snip snip) make money after winning such a big race?? Simply by winning more races? I suspect Chris has some knowledge along those lines.

Ken