Smith Out to Conquer the ‘World’ With Arrogate
By Joe Bianca
FULL PIECE: http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com...with-arrogate/
In May of 2005, Mike Smith piloted a gray colt by one of his beloved former mounts to a 50-1 upset in the GI Kentucky Derby. Giacomo (Holy Bull) represented the jockey’s first career win in the Run for the Roses, and it should have been the springboard to new heights of success for the New Mexico native. Instead, the Derby score was an outlier during the toughest period for Smith’s business since he left Canterbury Downs to ride on racing’s biggest stages in 1989.
“I more or less did it to myself,” Smith said of the lull in his career. “I thought, ‘well I’ll just hang out in Kentucky for a little bit,’ and thought I’d ease my way back east for a little while.”
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