Miracle in New York as 72/1 shot wins Wood Memorial
No one was giving Bourbonic much of a chance in Saturday’s $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct Park in New York, including his trainer, seven-time Eclipse Award winner Todd Pletcher.
ALL GRIT. 72-1
— Eclipse Sportswire (@EclipseSports) April 4, 2021
Wood Memorial winner BOURBONIC and jockey @KendrickCarmou1! @HR_nation @abrlive
📷 Dan Heary pic.twitter.com/yPdrwvNjA3
Bourbonic by a nose!
— NBC Sports (@NBCSports) April 3, 2021
A massive upset at the Wood Memorial! pic.twitter.com/N8b2b5XJXy
Favorites 2/1 Candy Man Rocket and 5/2 Risk Taking never really found their footing, ultimately fading to ninth and seventh respectively, leaving the race to those with underdog status with the exception of 3/1 Crowded Trade, who finished third.
Points, payouts and purses
🤩 Winning vibes 🤩
— NYRA (🏙) (@TheNYRA) April 3, 2021
Bourbonic. Kendrick. 100 points to the @KentuckyDerby pic.twitter.com/ZrIguyU9JO
ROAD TO THE KENTUCKY DERBY | Updated points
— Eric Crawford (@ericcrawford) April 3, 2021
1 Essential Quality (Cox) 140
2 Hot Rod Charlie (O’Neill) 110
3 Like the King (Ward) 104
4 Known Agenda (Pletcher) 102
5 Rebel’s Romance IRE (Appleby) 100
6 Rock Your World (Sadler) 100
7 Bourbonic (Pletcher) 100 pic.twitter.com/27zn9uqDJy