'It’s a moment you’ve lived for and tried to wait for all year. Then you think you’ve got it and the next minute they just take it from you.”
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“I really thought everything was going to be OK and I was going to ride the horse,” Lanerie said Friday afternoon. “I felt really good. I was glad I went, I might have secured it.”More Derby: Post time, odds, TV channel “I thought this year might have been my year because of all that,” Lanerie said. “I felt I would have had an angel with me to help me through.”
Loyalties can be notoriously fleeting in thoroughbred racing. After riding Justify to a Triple Crown for trainer Bob Baffert last spring, Smith repaid Baffert by abandoning Roadster to ride Omaha Beach for Richard Mandella. John Velazquez, who has been Pletcher’s go-to jockey and had been Cutting Humor’s regular rider, has chosen to make Shug McGaughey’s Code Of Honor his Derby mount.
His voice trailed off. Sitting at a round table outside Churchill Downs’ jockeys quarters, Lanerie wore a shirt embroidered with a logo for his late wife’s foundation and a large tattooed rose on his right shoulder. Lanerie has ridden in four Derbys to date, finishing second on long shot Lookin At Lee in 2017, but he said the rose was intended to cover an earlier tattoo and not as a tribute to the Run for the Roses.
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