Everyone loves an underdog, but what about an under-horse in the 2017 Kentucky Derby?
Meet “Patch,” the one-eyed horse who is running in the historic race on Saturday. Patch lost his left eye last year due to a severe infection in the globe of his eye.
According to his trainer, Todd Pletcher, the missing eye doesn’t seem to put the 3-year-old horse at any disadvantage.
“If you watched him train and didn’t know that he had one eye, there’s no indication of him doing anything peculiar in his training or in his races that would make you concerned about the one eye.” (USA Today)
Here’s a look at Patch in action.
Maybe we’ll see him gallop to a first-place finish.
