{"id":7470,"date":"2024-05-06T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T18:43:11","slug":"lessons-from-the-150th-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7470","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from the 150th Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

They ran the Kentucky Derby Saturday, and I missed it. Weird. I usually watch the Derby<\/a>, but this year I never gave “first Saturday in May” a thought until I received a news update saying who won. As always, a sports event happens whether I’m aware of it or not! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wished I had seen it live. It was the 150th running, the longest continuously running (no pun intended) sports event in the same venue – every year beginning in 1875, through two world wars and a depression. And it was a photo finish – there have been only 10 of those – and this one was 3-way:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here’s the official photo: Mystik Dan wins by the proverbial nose (yellow arrows on his nose at the finish line and his jockey in the green hat). The #2 horse on the outside, Sierra Leone, is inches behind (blue arrow). And there’s a third horse in there! You can see part of his jockey in red (red arrow), a “head” behind #2. Mystik Dan had taken the lead on the final stretch, and the other two horses were trying to catch him. You can see the race here.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So many lessons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n