The 2024 Kentucky Derby was as thrilling as it will get. The 150th Run for the Roses completed in amazing fashion in a 3-way photo end in the closes race the function has viewed considering that 1996. A lot of are continue to buzzing about the outcome, such as some controversy involving jockey Tyler Gaffalione, who was using runner-up Sierra Leone.
Gaffalione has been purchased to do a movie overview of the race with stewards on Thursday. Gaffalione could experience self-control right after the critique.
The incident in dilemma came on the ultimate straightaway as Sierra Leone and Without end Young shut on eventual winner Mystik Dan. Gaffalione and Sierra Leone were positioned on the exterior, with Forever Younger to their remaining and Mystik Dan on the inside of. As the horses neared the end, Gaffalione achieved out with his left arm and appeared to grab Without end Younger, ridden by jockey Ryusei Sakai. He maintained call for a several seconds as the horses appeared to be jostling for situation.
In this article is the assertion from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission issued on Monday:
“The Stewards overview every race in Kentucky stay and by online video replay before putting up it formal and they followed the exact method for the 150th managing of the Kentucky Derby. Just after conducting their regular evaluate of the race, deciding no further more overview or investigation was needed to conclude there have been no incidents that altered the complete of the race, and looking at there ended up no objections filed, the Stewards posted the Kentucky Derby formal. Subsequent the race, the Stewards ordered Tyler Gaffalione, jockey aboard Sierra Leone, to film assessment on May 9, 2024. The Stewards perform movie opinions routinely to evaluation the conduct of jockeys all through a race. The Stewards, in their discretion, can take disciplinary motion against a jockey pursuing the assessment.”
It truly is unclear what will occur as a final result of the evaluation, but SI’s Pat Forde speculated a brief suspension would probable be the most that would arrive of it. And it could outcome in no punishment at all.
