Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. won on Mystik Dan in a photo finish in the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday.
Mystik Dan, with jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. aboard, won the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday in a three-way photo finish, edging Sierra Leone and Forever Young at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
Twenty horses stampeding toward the first turn in a battle for position. A screaming crowd of 150,000 and a fast track.Post time is 6:57 p.m. EDT Saturday. Gloomy skies and occasional rain drops have given way to blue skies and sunshine. The dirt surface was upgraded to fast a couple hours before the race after being muddy to start the day's card.
The Derby will answer the perennial question of which 3-year-old can best handle running 1 1/4 miles in front of the biggest crowd they will ever see and hear.
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