ARCADIA — By consistently winning classy races in fast times with strong stretch runs, the 3-year-old colt Journalism had already shown a lot of the qualities that people getting a horse ready for the Kentucky Derby like to see.
Saturday, he checked one more box.
Journalism showed the ability to overcome adversity when he and jockey Umberto Rispoli escaped a traffic jam and rallied from last to win the $500,000, Grade I Santa Anita Derby.
“He hit a roadblock at the three-eighths (of