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| Authentic beats Tiz the Law (Getty) |
Bob Baffert does it again. This was his sixth Derby win.
The time was a very fast 2:00,61
You can find Authentic's pedigree here. Like thousands of racehorses today, Secretariat is in the pedigree of Authentic's on both his sire and dam's sides. He goes back a few generations.
Perhaps it is just as well Tiz the Law didn't win it and then the Preakness, for there would always be an asterisk after his name.
Some have blamed his win in the Travers for not being quite as sharp today, but he made a good effort.
Authentic wins the Kentucky Derby!! pic.twitter.com/OiSrJEcvZz— Kentucky Derby (@KentuckyDerby) September 5, 2020
The race, courtesy of NBC Sports. It took long enough to get an "official" upload:
This caps my sixtieth year of watching this race, all but one of them live (with 1974 being delayed broadcast on my local station). I have watched the Preakness and Belmont live most years since 1961, but I had to work at a law library and attend a few other special happenings like weddings, which interfered with my streak. My first Derby winner was Carry Back in 1961. He won the Preakness that year as well. His ashes are buried at Churchill Downs.
Upon thinking, I think I did watch the Derby and other races at the law library because in 1994, when I started there, I bought a small black-and-white television, which I brought to work and watched the races then. I later had a handheld color television. There was no streaming in the 1990s. I did, however, miss the Preakness when my nephew married in 1994, and I missed it again in 2000, when I graduated with a master's degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, and several family members showed up to watch the event.
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