Happy Monday!
This week on the show we’re looking at the Stanley Cup Finals, the latest news on the Phoenix Coyotes ownership situation, another boxing controversy and some sad news in the world of horse racing.
In the GABBYs: Union Rags, Charlie Sheen, Chad Ochocinco, the AHL, the San Diego Padres and the NBA. The Punchline this week is Elvin Ramirez.
I'll Have Another (Wikimedia Commons)
There will be no Triple Crown winner in 2012 after all.
Despite winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, I’ll Have Another was forced to pull out on Friday with a swollen tendon. One of the greatest Canadian-owned horses of all time also retired.
Affirmed in 1978 remains the last horse to win the Triple Crown. I’ll Have Another, who beat Bodemeister in two of the most compelling horse races I have ever seen to win the first two crowns in 2012. He was also the 4-5 favourite to win tomorrow, especially with the fact that Bodemeister was not going to be competing either.
Bodemeister (Wikimedia Commons)
I’ll Have Another’s chances of making horse racing history got a lot stronger today as it was announced by ESPN that Bodemeister will drop out of the Belmont.
Bodemeister had finished second to I’ll Have Another at the Preakness and Kentucky Derby in two of the most remarkable and exciting horse races I have ever seen. The news was confirmed by Bodemeister’s trainer Bob Baffert who nicknamed his horse after his son, Bode.
I’ll Have Another is capturing significant Canadian attention. The horse’s jockey, Mario Gutierrez spent six years in Vancouver, and its owner is J. Paul Reddam, a Windsor philosopher.
I'll Have Another (Wikimedia Commons)
There hasn’t been spectacular moments in Canadian horse racing since Northern Dancer won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 1964 and jockey Ron Turcotte of Drummond, New Brunswick rode Secretariat to a dramatic triple crown victory in 1973.
Actually on could argue that there hasn’t been many spectacular horse racing moments since Affirmed won the Triple Crown in 1978.
But Saturday delivered a spectacular horse race not just because that Canadian-owned I’ll Have Another won, but because how he won. It was almost a mirror image of the Kentucky Derby as I’ll Have Another caught Bodemeister near the finish line.
I'll Have Another (Wikimedia Commons)
When I’ll Have Another won the 2012 Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, many Canadians rejoiced.
Why? Well, because I’ll Have Another had significant Canadian connections. First the horse was owned by J. Paul Reddam of Windsor, Ontario and its jockey was Mexican Mario Gutierrez who has spent significant amount of time riding and training in Vancouver, British Columbia.
I’ll Have Another’s odds were 15-1 heading into the race and in the early going seemed to struggle but had an excellent finish and breezed past pre-race co-favourite Bodemeister in front of a record crowd of 165, 307 fans.
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