My review- 2015 Kentucky Derby and Johnny Weir

We were watching this year's Kentucky Derby last weekend on May 2 !

It was so much fun to watch last year's event, including the hat contest, and mainly we wanted to see Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski in it.

But not only that, the horse racing was very exciting to watch !

It's said that television coverage of the Kentucky Derby scored the highest overnight rating ( 35.0 rating ) for Saturday's win by American Pharoah since Pat Day rode Lil E. Tee to victory 23 years ago, in 1992 !

This year's Saturday evening was higher rating than last year.

Here are my favorites in this event.

My favorites

1. American Pharoah, with the Jockey Victor Espinoza won !

American Pharoah wins 141st Kentucky Derby

Honestly , I was not predicting Jockey Victor Espinoza to win this race again because he was not attending this race with his precious horse California Chrome and I was not sure about his new horse.

Just from my inspiration after seeing all the horses for this race, and the jocky's career history, I was predicting either Firing Line with the Jocky Gary Stevens who was wearing a pink jacket and Dortmund with the Jocky Martin Garcia to win the race.

After watching a video of a previous race with Firing Line and Dortmund, my husband was predicting Firing Line to win this Kentucky Derby, but he also thought American Pharoah and Dortmund had a great chance.

In the beginning, Dortmund was leading but during the last stretch he looked tired.

But Firing Line still had spark and looked super fast same as American Pharoah so we were really excited which horse will win at the end.

OMG, it was so inspring that Jockey Victor Espinoza won again this year's race, with his horse American Pharaoh !

We were talking about Victor Espinoza must have a winner's mindset in this event.

And the owner Bob Baffert was impressive who trained two amazing horses, American Pharoah and Dortmund. and he was the favorite to win the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby.

Jockey Gary Stevens with his horse Firing Line was very close and ended up coming in second, and was really amazingly fast as well.

Here is the result ,

1. American Pharoah

2. Firing Line

3. Dortmund

4. Frosted

5. Danzig Moon

6. Materiality

7. Keen Ice

8. Mubtaahij

9. Itsaknockout

10. Carpe Diem

11. Frammento

12. Bolo

13. Mr. Z

14. Ocho Ocho Ocho

15. Far Right

16. War Story

17. Tencendur

18. Upstart

It was really fun to watch the race !!!

2. Woodford Reserve Turf Classic race

This race was unbelievable !!!

2015 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic

Finnegan's Wake who was running last until the half way, 15 lengths away, really far away from all the other horses.

Actually he was so far behind that the camera didn't even show him for most of the first half of the race, but this horse won the race anyway !!!

Commentators were not even mentioning much about this horse after seeing he was running so far behind from the other horses, and maybe no one was expecting him to win this race.

We both just could not believe how he could even catch up to the other horses from such a far behind , besides, at the end he beat all of them !!!

The next day's news article title was " Finnegan's Wake wins "Woodford Reserve Turf Classic " by a nose !! A "

Yes, the video showed his nose coming in first at the finish LOL and we didn't know who was the Jockey of Finegans wake until finished the event.

and discovered it was Victor Espinoza !!!

OMG, it was him !!!

What an amazing jockey he is !!!

I really love this kind of race, because this is the example of never ever give up no matter where you are.

and this can give anyone hope for their life.

Very inspiring !!!

3. Johnny Weir & Tara Lipinski

Johnny's hat for this year was a mountain of red roses on a hat, like a peacock. It was entertaining !

Very Johnny. lol

And it was nice to see him wearing a horseback riding uniform in the scene in which they were meeting with the racing horses .

I've seen Johnny was wearing the uniform of horseback riding twice in the photos in the past, and always thought he really fits with the uniform and it makes him look very charming.

Tara was pretty with the dress and a hat and her shoes. I liked how she made up her hair in it.

I was glad that they showed them more than last year !

I especially like the part which they were making drinks with a lot of crushed ice on top.

and also the part which they were greeting to each racing horse.

The reason we both started watching the Kentucky Derby is because of them.

They are always very adorable to watch. Also it was fun to watch many kind of gorgeous unique hats.

Thank you to NBC !!!

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