Slowest Derby winner in 25 years …

[vagrant]

… per ThoroGraph. 

Does it matter? Of course not. Trophies talk, figures walk. But his fig = 4th last year. 

[1hooper]

Or you could look at it that Forever Young's fig would have won in 2021 and 2022.

[vagrant]

Fair enough.

[Badactor]

Slowest second and third place finishers in 25 years.
One might say the only reason Forever Young and Sierra Leone
got as close as they did to Mystik Dan,
is precisely because they were battling for second place.