"We were just crazy screaming. I was hyperventilating," Stacie Conard told ABC affiliate WHAS. "The kids were trying to tell me to calm down, but they were all pretty excited." Conard and her five children won $25,000 when Rich Strike pulled off the upset with 80 to 1 odds, winning the 148th Kentucky Derby.
It was the veteran horseman's first Kentucky Derby starter; he and owner Richard Dawson claimed Rich Strike for $30,000 from breeder Calumet Farm and trainer Joe Sharp last September at Churchill Downs. Reed, who watched the race from the paddock, fell to the ground after Rich Strike crossed the wire first.
$74,000 After Rich Strike stunned the world with a run for the ages at Churchill Downs on Saturday, one person won more than $74,000 on a $5 trifecta bet. Rich Strike had the second-longest odds of any Kentucky Derby winner ever. Only Donerail was a bigger underdog when he defeated Ten Point in 1913.
“I haven't bet on horses in a few years, but around 5 o'clock I decided why not,” said Green, a former basketball and field hockey player at Holy Spirit High. Her $10 bet turned into a modest $818 windfall as Rich Strike paid $163.60 to win, $74.20 to place, and $29.40 to show.
He didn't know that he was trying to help him, he thought he was supposed to outrun that horse, and he bit the guy's leg terribly. He bit his arm, a couple really bad bites. The horse is not a mean horse, he just was in race mode and he didn't understand why they were grabbing him to slow him down.
Why did Rich Strike try to bite the pony and its outrider? 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.
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.