Golden Tempo created history when winning the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday night.
His thrilling neck victory over Renegade saw Cherie DeVaux become the first-ever female trainer to win North America's most famous race.
Eclipse Award-winning jockey Jose Ortiz marginally got the better of his brother Irad to register by far and away the greatest win of his career. The duo shared a moment of congratulations soon after the winning line following their momentous family 1-2.
More than 150,000 spectators packed into Churchill Downs to witness DeVaux win the race at the first time of asking and now dreams of the US Triple Crown are very much alive.
"I don't think I have any words right now," said DeVaux.
"I'm just so happy for Golden Tempo and Jose, who did a masterful job of getting him there because he was so far out of it.
"I'm glad I can be a representative of women everywhere that we can do anything we set our minds to."
Early on in the race, victory for Golden Tempo looked extremely unlikely with Ortiz sat way, way off the pace, towards the rear of the field. But, as the race developed, the eye was drawn to the outside of the track with Golden Tempo and Renegade making late, surging progress.
Golden Tempo just took the advantage and won rather snugly at the line.
The three-year-old entered the race somewhat under the radar after consecutive third-place finishes in Group 2 events but he has now delivered on the promise that he showed when winning the Lecomte Stakes at the beginning of the year.
Although the owner has been somewhat non-committal regarding the prospect of an assault on the Triple Crown, the temptation to run in the next leg of the series, the Preakness Stakes, might be hard to resist.
Should race and land success at Laurel Park in two weeks time then he will surely head to the Belmont Stakes where he will bid to become the first US Triple Crown winner since Justify in 2018.
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