KENTUCKY DERBY 2019 MAXIMUM SECURITY DISQUALIFIED - Full Coverage (TVG). Horse Racing. Bob Baffert.

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The horse that crossed the finish line first didn’t win the Kentucky Derby.

Maximum Security appeared to win the 145th running of the sport’s most famous race in two thrilling minutes. But amid all the celebration over his most exciting win yet, viewers soon learned of an objection raised against the first-place horse by second-place finisher Country House. After an agonizing half-hour wait, the news came: Maximum Security was disqualified, the first-ever apparent winner to be disqualified, and 65-to-1 long-shot Country House had “won” the Kentucky Derby.

For an already anachronistic sporting event that thrives on its fleeting thrills, this was an unbearably suspenseful, full-on bizarre way to declare a winner. It had never happened before. Racing enthusiasts pray it never happens again. But the story’s not over: Maximum Security’s owner is filing an appeal with the Kentucky racing commission to overturn the overturning of his win.

Maximum Security led almost the entire race. But on video replay, he was found to have violated the race’s interference rules, altering the paths of War of Will, Long Range Toddy, and Country House with a stumble to his right. The former two horses would fade to the back of the pack in the final stretch, but Country House — one of two teams to lodge the complaint that overturned the race — had come in second out on the track.

This story has plenty on its own: a historic disqualification and a horse with historically long odds becoming the recorded champion of the Kentucky Derby. But it couldn’t escape Donald Trump, who believed the instant-replay overturn was a symptom of the deeper disease of political correctness.

There is some vague political theory here — there is a certain officiousness inherent to instant replay that Trump probably also sees in whatever he considers “political correctness” — but antipathy for instant replay crosses ideological boundaries.

The president’s fixation on culture wars is boorish and predictable, but he’s right about something: Nobody wants to see the Kentucky Derby end on instant replay.

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