Mystik Dan gained the one hundred and fiftieth Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday in a three-horse photograph end, edging out Sierra Leone and Eternally Younger for the upset victory.
Despatched off at 18-1 odds, Mystik Dan and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. rode the rail down the stretch with a brief lead. Eternally Younger and Sierra Leone gave chase and pressured the chief to the wire in entrance of 156,710 spectators at Churchill Downs.
The group waited a number of minutes earlier than the outcome was reviewed by the stewards and declared official.
Hernandez and coach Kenny McPeek had teamed to win the Kentucky Oaks for fillies on Friday with Thorpedo Anna.
Mystik Dan ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:03.34 and earned $3.1 million of the $5 million purse.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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