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Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde on Golden Tempo’s ‘pretty dramatic’ win at the Kentucky Derby

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Pat Forde has covered 39 Kentucky Derbys. He has never seen one like last weekend’s. Nobody has.

The 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby will go down as one of the most memorable. Golden Tempo’s last-to-first victory captivated America and made Cherie DeVaux a star as she became the first female trainer to win the…

Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde (middle) with WLKY and SportsLine horse racing expert Jody Demling (left) and Mark Mathis (right) of the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer. (Photo courtesy of Pat Forde). Pat Forde has covered 39 Kentucky Derbys.

He has never seen one like last weekend’s. Nobody has. The 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby will go down as one of the most memorable.

Golden Tempo’s last-to-first victory captivated America and made Cherie DeVaux a star as she became the first female trainer to win the world’s most famous horse race. To learn more about this unlikely victory story, we recently caught up with Forde. While he’s best known for college sports, the Sports Illustrated senior writer also covers horse racing.

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