LONG ODDS

LONG ODDS: I like to watch horse racing on channe 602 on Direct TV. Everyonce in a while the announcers chat about racing history. One day the subject was long odds. The longest odds in the history of the Kentucky Derby was Donerail in 1913 at 97 to 1. The next horse they talked about was not long odds in numbers but the long odds of even getting to the Kentucky Derby. Canonero II was born in 1968. He was born with a crooked leg and had a crabwalk gait. He was a . chestnut with a blaze of a white dot. He sold at a very low price to Pedro Batista. The owner had to borrow the fifty thousand dollar enrollment for the derby. There several flight delays. By the time they got to Miami and after a four day quarantine they had two days to get to Louiseville. The owner could not afford to fly him there. He decided to drive the one thousand miles to Kentucky. The race was the next day. The odds were 8.7 to 1. He started in 18th place and won the Kentucky Derby. He also won the Preakness for a combined total of a little over three hundred thousand dollars. Canonero II was retiredin 1972 and died in 1981. I wonder if he had decendents who were winners. I think this story would make a wonderful movie. C'mon Hollywood, give it a try. Please.