What was wrong with Rich Strike after the race?

Rich Strike was still amped up when outrider Greg Blasi came over to help settle him down after the race. The horse wouldn't cooperate and remained out of control, repeatedly biting Blasi and his pony as the Churchill Downs crowd looked on.

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The finish to the 2022 Kentucky Derby was a chaotic one in more ways than one. The race, which was run at a break-neck pace, came down to the wire. But on the final stretch, 80-1 longshot Rich Strike outran favorites Zandon and Epicenter by less than a length to earn one of the most improbable Kentucky Derby wins in history.

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The action, however, didn't stop there. Rich Strike was still amped up when outrider Greg Blasi came over to help settle him down after the race. The horse wouldn't cooperate and remained out of control, repeatedly biting Blasi and his pony as the Churchill Downs crowd looked on. Naturally, this incident drew a lot of attention as this type of behavior isn't exactly common on the Kentucky Derby stage. Some focused their attention on Blasi's actions, but most onlookers had one question on their minds.

Why did Rich Strike try to bite the pony and its outrider?

MORE: Where Rich Strike's win ranks among biggest upsets in Kentucky Derby history Aaron Mudd of the Lexington Herald-Leader spoke to Caton Bredar, an on-air host with horse racing television network TVG, about the biting incident involving Rich Strike. Her conclusion was that the horse was acting typical of an aggressive male horse. Bredar largely attributed Rich Strike’s behavior to the fact that he is a stallion of a particularly tough pedigree. She characterized the outburst she saw from Rich Strike as typically 'studdish,' a bit of horse talk for aggressive male horse behavior, including nipping and herding mares, female horses. Likewise, a mare is acting 'mareish' if she gets nervous, spooked and hard to handle. Bredar blamed neither Blasi nor Rich Strike's jockey, Sonny Leon, for the incident. She conceded that perhaps a more experienced rider could have mitigated the situation, something that Leon wasn't able to do, but Mudd writes that Bredar "made a point of saying she did not want to blame the jockey."

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So, it would just seem that Rich Strike is just an aggressive horse. Perhaps that's what gives him an edge during his races. Either way, he pulled off the big upset and endeared himself to racing fans everywhere with his improbable victory. Now, he and Leon will look toward the second leg of the triple crown, the Preakness Stakes, as they look to continue their Cinderella run. We'll soon see if Rich Strike has trouble calming down after that race.

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Did anyone win big off Rich Strike?

This is the most unbelievable day ever possible.” Rich Strike, who covered the mile and a quarter in 2 minutes 2.61 seconds, rewarded his believers with a whopping $163.60 on a $2 bet to win. It was the second-biggest upset in the race's history, behind only Donerail in 1913 who paid $184.90.

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But his horses were. Baffert’s Messier and Taiba were handed off to a former assistant, Tim Yakteen, so the ghost of the white-haired trainer hovered beneath the Twin Spires. The other contenders had blue-blood ownership and were conditioned by gold-plated trainers. Steve Asmussen, the winningest trainer in North America — 9,731 and counting — saddled Epicenter, and the four-time Eclipse Award champion trainer Chad Brown had high hopes for Zandon. For a dozen seconds or so in the deep stretch, it sure looked as if one of them was going to take down his first Derby victory. Their horses bounded down the lane together, two shadows trying to escape the sun. But Leon and Rich Strike were having none of it. Leon knew he had a horse who had a powerful motor and iron lungs. The colt’s owner, Rick Dawson, has been in the sport long enough, and with an abiding respect for it, that he vowed never to put one of his horses in a spot where he could be embarrassed.

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