Derby Recap by Haskin

Graham Motion stood outside Barn 22 the morning of the $2,171,800 May 7 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) and admitted he had no idea what to expect from Team Valor International’s Animal Kingdom, who was about to make his first career start on dirt. Motion was well aware that no horse had ever won the Derby making his dirt debut.




“I just don’t know,” Motion said. “The statistics are all against him, I feel good about running the horse, but it’s such an unknown. I love the horse, I love the way he worked over the dirt, and I love his attitude. He’s got everything going for him. It’s just that unknown.”



But as Jim Morrison said, “There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.”



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