Rich Strike’s Insane Kentucky Derby Victory Amidst 80–1 Odds Shocks Warzone Ace TimTheTatman

Published 05/08/2022, 2:49 PM EDT

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Derby has never been this unpredictable and Saturday’s race just proved the fact that anything is possible on a given day, even when all the odds are against you. An outsider horse in Rich Strike just pulled off the historic upset in Kentucky Derby. Despite having 80-1 chances of victory, the horse eventually won. It resulted in many people dropping their jaws off, including Warzone streamer TimTheTatman.

TimTheTatman wasn’t able to believe on his eyes as he took to Twitter to express his reaction on the recent Kentucky Derby race. It seems like Rich Strike will be the talk of the social media trends for the coming weeks.

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Rich Strike leaves TimTheTatman in complete shock!

For the uninitiated ones, Kentucky Derby is a decades old horse race which is held almost always on the first Saturday of May every year. The entire tournament which runs for two weeks, takes place in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. It’s a Grades I competition for three year old Thoroughbreds, covering a distance of one and a quarter miles at Churchill Downs.

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On Saturday, the race saw a miracle happening in the competition’s history. It’s because the most unlikely contender won the race in the end. And it was none other than a horse named Rich Strike, ridden by Sonny Leon.

Yes, ultimately it happened in Louisville as Rich Strike took the top spot defying the longest odds compared to all the other horses.

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Well such an upset couldn’t go unnoticed, whatsoever, especially when it comes to the social media. Soon it was all over the internet as Derby enthusiasts weren’t able to absorb this anomaly. Call of Duty Warzone streamer TimTheTatman was perhaps the one who was left highly speechless after Saturday’s result in Kentucky Derby.

On Twitter, he mentioned that even in the wildest of his dreams, he didn’t expect a horse having 80-1 odds eventually winning the race.

Same was the case with other people as well, since they were, too, stunned by ‘Rich Strike’s ultimate strike’.

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What are your thoughts on TimTheTatman’s reaction on Saturday’s derby result?

Also, did you expect the newly trending star horse to clinch the first position before the start of the race?

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Mintu Tomar is an eSports author at EssentiallySports. After completing his bachelor's in Philosophy, he has followed his passion for covering news as a budding journalist. He lives and breathes video games and is a die-hard Call of Duty fan.
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