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“His momentum just stopped. I know it’s easy to say it, but I’ve got to believe he would have won. He wasn’t getting tired. He never took a deep breath,” said jockey Jerry Bailey in the moments after the 1991 Travers (G1).

There was a time when it was believed a horse couldn’t win the Kentucky Derby (G1) without having raced as a two-year-old.

Derby Week at Churchill Downs is about presence. The sound of the crowd. The anticipation before the race. The release when the gates open.