Inside the strangest 22 minutes in Kentucky Derby history
By Chuck Culpepper Chuck Culpepper Reporter who covers national college football, college basketball, tennis, golf and international sports. Email Bio Follow May 6 at 7:44 PM LOUISVILLE — Two landline phones in a metal box hang on a wall near the jockey scales at 144-year-old Churchill Downs. They usually sit there idly, especially during and after the Kentucky Derby. If lifted, they ring directly to the stewards’ stand six floors above.
The three stewards upstairs answering the two calls — one woman and two men — began 21 minutes and 57 seconds of analyzing the race amid the kind of rarefied pressure that can come only from 150,729 spectators, millions of TV viewers and dozens of horse connections. As they studied the video, they would refer to the horses by their saddle numbers, not by their names.
Guilfoil, their boss, had gone upstairs to visit them several races earlier Saturday, but now, with the Kentucky Derby result under review, he waited downstairs with everyone else. Surrounded by reporters, Mott fielded question after question after question. “In stressful situations,” Rice said, “sometimes it’s nice to just keep talking to somebody.”Said Guilfoil, “How long it takes doesn’t mean anything to me — just so they do the right thing.”
Going by the book The decision registered on the racetrack board: Country House had won the first 24-minute Kentucky Derby. Maximum Security had gone disqualified and into 17th place. Country House had been moved from second place to winner. The crowd made sort of a mass gasp.
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