Race came down to three-way photo finish as favorite Fierceness placed 15th
Mystik Dan won the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday, snatching victory over Sierra Leone at the wire in a scintillating first leg of US flat racing's Triple Crown at Churchill Downs.Trained by Kenny McPeek and ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr., Mystik Dan moved in front in the final straight and held off -- by less than a nose -- the late charges by second-favorite Sierra Leone and Japanese raider Forever Young.
Mystik Dan has won the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby in a dramatic three-horse photo finish at Churchill Downs