Rancho Santa Fe owners return to Derby for first time since controversial ruling erased Maximum Security's win
The sting might lessen, but the agonizing ache surely never goes away. There are frustrating things in sports. Unexpected things. Shocking things. In the moment, seemingly universe-altering things.
As Gary and Mary West of Rancho Santa Fe waited 22 minutes to learn if their horse Maximum Security had won the Kentucky Derby after a pair of jockey objections — a wrenching eternity in racing, let alone in its most globally significant race — the minutes crawled.This was a never-in-almost-a-century-and-a-half thing. This was a jaw-dropping, gasp-inducing conga line of events too ludicrous for even the most brazen Hollywood script scribblers.
Hit Show, a $404,375 earner who has won three of five career races, broke into the Derby field. The Wests and trainer Brad Cox drew the dreaded inside post and confidence-sapping 30-1 odds. The last horse to win the Derby from that cramped location was Ferdinand, 37 years ago.
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