spokane holds the record for the fastest mile and a half in the kentucky derby.
spokane holds the record for the fastest mile and a half in the kentucky derby.
who holds the record for the fastest mile and a half in the kentucky derby?
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at three, easy goer started his year in florida by winning the swale stakes in the fastest seven furlongs of the gulfstream park meeting in a time of 1:22 1/5 while carrying ten pounds more than the runner up. he "exploded" around the far turn to an almost nine length win defeating kentucky jockey club stakes and nassau county stakes winner tricky creek. he then won the one mile grade ii gotham stakes by thirteen lengths in stakes and track record time while conceding nine pounds and five pounds to the second and third-place finishers respectively, including future world record holder (on turf at one mile) expensive decision, winner of the kelso handicap and saranac handicap. he ran within one to two lengths of the leaders throughout the race, who were running a very rapid pace of 44 1/5 and 1:08 3/5, before running past them and widening away. he won handily and his winning time of 1:32 2/5 for the mile set a new track record, a second faster than secretariat's stakes record, the fastest mile on a dirt surface by any three-year-old thoroughbred in history, and a fifth of a second off dr. fager's world record. easy goer's unofficial gallop-out time of 1:45 4/5 for 1 1/8 miles, was 1 1/5 seconds faster than the track record set in 1973 by riva ridge, and only two fifths of a second slower than secretariat's former nine-furlong world record on dirt set in the 1973 marlboro cup. his next race was the mile and an eighth grade i wood memorial, which in 1989 was run two weeks after the gotham stakes and two weeks before the kentucky derby. easy goer ran close to the lead the entire race and won by three lengths over federico tesio stakes winner rock point. he was timed in a relatively moderate 1:50 3/5. however, students of time pointed out that aqueduct was playing about two seconds slower than normal on the day.
easy goer