- and
Monarchos pulled clear to win by
almost five
lengths from
Invisible Ink, with
Congaree third and the
favored Point Given fifth.
Monarchos' winning...
- the race
Monarchos was
never in the
front of the pack.
Coming around the
final quarter mile
Monarchos was in 13th place. The
jockey of
Monarchos; Jorge...
- minutes.
Another sub-two-minute finish, only the third, was set in 2001 by
Monarchos at 1:59.97, the
first year the race used
hundredths of
seconds instead...
-
Spectacular Bid (1979),
Swale (1984),
Unbridled (1990),
Thunder Gulch (1995),
Monarchos (2001),
Barbaro (2006), Big
Brown (2008), Orb (2013),
Nyquist (2016),...
- less than 2
minutes before, and it
would not be
accomplished again until Monarchos ran the race in 1:59.97 in 2001.
Sportswriter Mike ****van
later said:...
-
Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, he won the 2001
Kentucky Derby with
Monarchos and
owned Beautiful Pleasure, the 1999
American Champion Older Female...
-
Charismatic Lemon Drop Kid 2000
Fusaichi Pegasus Red
Bullet Commendable 2001
Monarchos #
Point Given #
Point Given 2002 * War
Emblem * War
Emblem Sarava 2003...
- Another,
Super Saver,
Street Sense,
Smarty Jones,
Funny Cide, War Emblem,
Monarchos, Mine That Bird,
Fusaichi Pegasus, Real Quiet, Grindstone,
Thunder Gulch...
-
sources were "Constantine VII for
ancient history,
Hamartolus (Georgios
Monarchos) for the
Byzantine age". Krumbacher, Karl,
Geschichte der byzantinischen...
- McGregor,
Government in Athens, 122–123. J.S. Morrison-A. W. Gomme,
Pericles Monarchos, 76–77. 2.64 Plutarch, Pericles,
XVIII A.G. Platias-C. Koliopoulos, Thucydides...
