Country House won Saturday’s Kentucky Derby after finishing the race in second place. That’s because the race’s winner, Maximum Security was disqualified because an objection had been filed.
It was ruled that Maximum Security blocked another horse’s path as he drifted to the outside coming around a turn.
An explanation of the historic inquiry ruling that disqualified Maximum Security, making Country House the @KentuckyDerby winner. pic.twitter.com/YZqqn4ucbJ
— NBC Sports (@NBCSports) May 4, 2019
What a wild finish to the race. This will go down as the day the best horse didn’t win the Kentucky Derby.
We need someone to calculate how much money switched hands after Maximum Security was disqualified. It has to be an obscene amount.
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