If you don’t love the Triple Crown (as is), I’ve got nothing for you. The Belmont is iconic, the Preakness is the party and the Derby is the Derby. Cumulatively, it is the best five weeks of the year, every year.
Travis Stone
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Travis Stone
@TravisStone
Every race is a story and I'm grateful to tell them as the track announcer at iconic @ChurchillDowns. See you on @KentuckyDerby Day. Go Knicks!
Louisville, KY
Joined October 2008
- That was one of the greatest moments ever under the Twin Spires. Lukas influenced generations of racing fans, coached the strongest roster of future star trainers in the game and, still as competitive as ever, just won the Kentucky Oaks at 86-years-old. Just awesome.
- I can’t get enough of Sonny Leon’s ride. Calvin Borel’s ride on Mine that Bird was sensational but they were also several lengths the best. Sonny’s ride on Rich Strike was a true difference maker. Every move was the right move. Anything but and they don’t win. Remarkable!
- This is worth one minute of your day…
- The silks are done for the @KentuckyDerby ... there is no turning back now! Good luck to everyone today @ChurchillDowns!
- The term "GOAT" is overused and overplayed. But Bob Baffert has now won the Triple Crown twice (!!!) and once with a horse that started his career in February. If that's not the GOAT, I'm not sure what is.
- I’m excited to share that after an unexpected overnight stay in Jordan, I’ve safely arrived in Riyadh and look forward to calling @TheSaudiCup! A challenge looms but what an honor it is. For now the goal is to maintain negative tests, manage jet lag and memorize silks! Let’s go!!
- Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the kind words and encouragement over the past week. From Lukas to Leon I’d say it was one of the best Oaks/Derby one-two punches ever. Packed house both days, everyone had fun and it was great to see. Cheers!
- Delgado and Rivelli barely have 100 starts this year between them and they just ran one-two in the @KentuckyDerby. I’d call that a feel-good outcome. The energy before this race was unlike any of the others I’ve experienced. The Derby is THE horse race!
- Justify easily beat the talented Bolt d’Oro and then won the @KentuckyDerby despite an insane pace. He barely trained into the @PreaknessStakes. Dog fight with champion Good Magic? No problem. Apollo, Mother Nature and bruised foot be damned! And this all started 90 days ago.
- I appreciate and respect @jose93_ortiz for what I thought was the right ride on Good Magic. If he rates, Justify gallops. The only way to win was to be aggressive. He’s an Eclipse Award winning jockey for a reason. Good Magic was a unlucky to be born in the same year as Justify.
- Sovereignty’s stride under the finish line looked they were just going by for the first time. Complete domination.
