From left: Country House, War of Will, Maximum Security and Code of Honor run four-wide at the turn for home at Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. Mark Casse, the trainer of War of Will, on Tuesday compared Maximum Security jockey Luis Saez’s Kentucky Derby to a “drunk driver” in an interview with the Louisville Courier Journal, accusing the rider of improperly blocking other horses and endangering the field. Race stewards named Country House, who finished 1¾ lengths behind Maximum Security, the winner, but neither Maximum Security nor Country House will run in the Preakness Stakes. “The facts are Maximum Security is a great horse that crossed the line first in the Derby, but unfortunately committed a major infraction that denied him a Derby victory. [How much will Kentucky Derby foul limit Maximum Security’s value?

Source: Washington Post May 08, 2019 16:07 UTC