Mystik Dan wins 150th Kentucky Derby in epic three-horse photo finish

Mystik Dan won the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby in a heart-pounding three-horse photo finish on Saturday at Churchill Downs. The bay colt trained by Kenny McPeek and ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr, who went off at 18-1 odds, held off Sierra Leone by a nose with the Japanese colt Forever Young a whisper behind in third, the closest finish to a Kentucky Derby in nearly three decades. The upset marked the tightest margin in America's most famous thoroughbred race since Grindstone edged Cavonnier in 1996 – and only the 10th time it's been decided by a nose.