About 12 months ago, Garrett Gomez hit the top of the stretch at
Churchill Downs with a ton of horse beneath him. Three sixteenths of a
mile left to go and Pioneerof the Nile was rolling home en route to a
blanket of roses and what would have been his rider's first Kentucky
Derby win. Then came the bullet.
"Just like whoosh!" Gomez recalled, the disbelief of that
moment still fresh in his mind. "A streak that flew past us. It was
crazy because I went from sitting there thinking, 'Wow, my chances are
looking pretty good!' to thinking, 'Who the heck was that?'"
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