Word: gato
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eddie Delahoussaye, only the fourth jockey ever to ride back-to-back Kentucky Derby winners, patted Sunny's Halo's neck just as he had Gato del Sol's last year: two terrific horses. Ten years ago exactly, Secretariat spoiled horses for people. When he romped around the track, the trees swayed. A showy chestnut with three white stockings, he made it necessary to reissue Writer Joe Palmer's perfect description of Man o' War: "As near to a living flame as horses ever get." Actually, Secretariat came to the Kentucky Derby off a defeat...
From dead last, Gato del Sol takes the roses...
...favorites that did not fall out before last Saturday's Kentucky Derby fell back during it. Gato del Sol, a 21-1 shot, went into the first turn last and passed 18 horses to win the Derby. It was hardly a classic one: the "greatest two minutes in sport" ran over this year by more than a couple of seconds. Yet Kentuckians were moved all the same, some to tears...
...went his own way. He liked to pick at country music and even cut an album in Nashville. Still, Arthur was bred to be a horseman, and he started his own smaller enterprise-away from Claiborne-Stone Farm. In partnership with Leone J. Peters, he is the owner of Gato del Sol. The Hancocks finally have a Derby winner. "I want to dedicate it to my dad," said Arthur Hancock. "He taught me all I know...
Eddie Gregson, a former movie actor who trains for the former country singer, said immediately that Gato del Sol would not even go to the Preakness, the second Triple Crown jewel in two weeks, but the tugging of tradition will be strong. "He's had a hard campaign," Gregson said of the handsome gray colt. "I had planned all along for just the Derby and the Belmont Stakes [the third jewel in five weeks]. I don't want to ruin my horse." He had an undeniable point...