Michael McCarthy has just witnessed a flexibility show that was revealed in front of him in The Preakness Stakes on Saturday when he pointed to another.
McCarthy told NBC in a television interview from Baltimore’s Pimlico Race, just minutes after his horse’s victory, the press, in running 150th of the Triple Crown race. “This is for us.”
The victory of the press requires the return of more than five lengths, which is an unlikely process that requires slipping between two horses on both sides when it enters the background, then was fiercely formed to the leader Gusger, and did not take the initiative until the last steps. The road was unexpected and difficult – not all that is different from what its coach has been carrying since January of the forest fires in southern California, which led to the displacement of McCarthy and his family from their home.
While the fire was crawling inside a I mentioned 600 feet from the walls of McCarthy house in Altadina, he left his wife and daughter at 4:40 am and checks to a hotel, Athlete I mentioned last month. McCarthy’s house in the hands suffered from smoke, but he eventually survived what became known as Etone Fire, who was named after the near valley from which he grew up and grew into a fire that would kill 18 people. But his neighborhood was largely destroyed, as was the city in which he grew up.
What remains in Altadena was “Just Chimneys”, McCarthy He said NBC SPORTS last month.
Together, the nearby Eaton and Palisades Fire fire, which also caught in early January in Pacific Palisades West Los Angeles, also spread through strong winds, an estimated 16,000 buildings, more than 30,000 people and an economic loss of more than $ 250 billion.
On January 8, when the fire broke out, the 3 -year -old press was in the right back corner of her booth in a barn in Santa Anita Park in the nearby Arcadia, “where they go when they know something that happens”, McCarthy. He said NBC SPORTS ‘Tim Layden. The coach decided to transfer the press and other horses from the barn on that day and made them lead them near San Diego as a preventive measure.
Aaron Willman, co -owner of the press, He said Al -Riyadi last month that “there were many moving parts” with fires.
“The weight of the world was on the shoulders of Michael there a little there,” he said.
When, after four days, the press was returned to Santa Anita, his coach noted that the horse was not affected by the turmoil around him.
It was a prediction of the unification of the horse he used to win Saturday in Pimlico.
The preferred bet to win on May 3 in Kentucky Derby, where the press ranked second when it was unable to pick up sovereignty. The Derby hero was not inserted into Preakness due to the two -week shift. It was rare for a virgin derby champion, and thus missing the possibility of winning the triple horse race crown, which ends with Belmont Stakes. However, this year represents the third time in the past four years, the Preakness field did not include the Derby winner. Create a discussion about whether the triple crown, with three races spaced for only two weeks, imposes taxes on horses.
Three horses also raced in the Preakness field in Kentucky Derby.
“I think he says a lot about him,” McCarthy said after the race. “It is easy to reach any of these triple crown races, you definitely need the car, and we had with him.”
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In the nine horsepower field on Saturday, the press sat in sixth place during the afternoon of the course of 1 3/16 miles, and appeared very far to provide a challenge that enters his home in front of the runlico runway that will be demolished soon. However, the press showed why it was preferred before the race, with 6-5 possibilities, by imposing a victory.
Willman said after the race.
“I only think this victory symbolizes a lot about life,” Willman said. “It took the courage of Mike McCarthy to make this invitation here. It took the courage to (the knight) Umberto Reesboli to take his way through an apparently impossible hole, get to know the needle and localize the needle and operate it. The courage took a somewhat incredible horse on his way to victory.”
