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Gun Runner is a chestnut stallion with a small white star and one white sock bred in Kentucky by Benjamin Leon Jr.'s Besilu Stables. [3] His sire is Candy Ride, an Argentinian-bred horse who was undefeated in a six race career that included four Grade I wins in Argentina and the United States.
Entering the stretch, Gun Runner responded to the challenge and pulled away, winning by 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 lengths. Collected held on for second while West Coast was third. [9] Gun Runner's win came against an apparent track bias: in most other races that week at Del Mar, races had been won by horses that raced off the rail and came from behind.
Once Arrogate recovered his stride, Smith took him to the outside of the field and started to steadily make up ground. When they entered the stretch, Arrogate started to close rapidly and moved by Gun Runner to win by 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 lengths. On a track labeled as muddy, he completed the 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) (roughly 10 furlongs) in 2:02.23.
Only one horse won in front-running fashion: Gun Runner in the Classic. [12] Javier Castellano earned the Shoemaker Award for outstanding jockey at the Breeders' Cup with one win aboard Rushing Fall, a second and a third. John Velazquez was the only jockey with multiple wins, taking the Distaff with Forever Unbridled and the Mile on World Approval.
Sierra Leone's sire Gun Runner was the third-ranked sire by both gross ($5,635,000) and average ($704,375) from eight horses sold of nine offered at the sale. [4] In 2023, Gun Runner was the third ranked sire in progeny earnings with $17,532,118. [5] In 2024 Gun Runner stands at Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky for US$250,000.
7 lengths - Gun Runner (2017) Most wins. 2 - Vodika Collins (1982, 1983) 2 - Recoup the Cash (1994, 1995) Most wins by a jockey. 3 - Robby Albarado (2007, 2008, 2009)
Nyquist held him off to win the race by 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 lengths. Nyquist was the eighth undefeated winner in Kentucky Derby history, the first since Big Brown in 2008. The last horse to have been undefeated in seven races prior to winning the Derby was Majestic Prince in 1969.
Florent Geroux (born July 16, 1986) is a French jockey who has earned over 1,700 wins in American thoroughbred horse racing, including the 2017 Breeders' Cup Classic on Gun Runner, two Breeders' Cup Distaff wins with Monomoy Girl, and the 2021 Kentucky Derby on Mandaloun.