2010 KENTUCKY DERBY
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©2010 HORSEPHOTOS/NTRA

 Super Saver winning the 136th running of The Kentucky Derby.

 SUPER SAVER WINS 136TH KENTUCKY DERBY 

KENTUCKY DERBY OFFICIAL RESULTS

MAY 1, 2010

KENTUCKY DERBY

GRADE I

CHURCHILL DOWNS; LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

FOR THREE YEAR OLDS

ONE AND ONE QUARTER MILES

MAIN TRACK: SLOPPY (SEALED)

 

 

Pgm Horse Win Place Show
4 Super Saver       18.00 8.80 6.00
2 Ice Box      11.20 8.00
10 Paddy O'Prado     7.40

$2 Exacta: 4-2            $152.40
$2 Trifecta: 4-2-10      $2,337.40

SUPER SAVER

Winner

136th Kentucky Derby

Jockey: Calvin H. Borel

Trainer: Todd A. Pletcher

Owner/Breeders: WinStar Farm LLC

Bay Colt

Sire: Maria's Mon

Dam: Supercharger, by A.P. Indy

 

OFFICIAL ORDER OF FINISH

Program Number Horse Lengths Behind
4 Super Saver  
2  Ice Box 2.50
10 Paddy O'Prado 2.50
9 Make Music For Me  4.50
3 Noble's Promise  5.75
1 Lookin At Lucky  6.75
17 Dublin 7.25
6  Stately Victor 8.50
14 Mission Impazible 10.50
11 Devil May Care 11.75
7 American Lion 18.50
13 Jackson Bend 18.50
15 Discreetly Mine 25
8 Dean's Kitten  28.25
12 Conveyance 42.75
19 Homeboykris 53.25
20 Sidney's Candy 53.75
5 Line Of David 60
16 Awesome Act 60
18 Backtalk 69.50

Scratches: None

 22.63, 46.16, 1:10.58, 1:37.65, 2:04.45

SUPER SAVER AND CALVIN BOREL VICTORIOUS AT CHURCHILL IN RUN FOR ROSES

 

May 1, 2010

Churchill Downs

Louisville, Kentucky

Super Saver, with Calvin Borel aboard, was the victor in the 136th Running of The Kentucky Derby at a soggy Churchill Downs.  After rain had put a damper on most of the day the sun came out just in time to crown another Derby champion.  Most of the card saw speed back up as winners were making one run from the 3, 4 and 5 paths to win the earlier races.  But after the rains let up the rail became a much better place to be running than earlier in the card.  With that in mind Calvin Borel was able to secure early running on the rail from the break and was able to save ground throughout the race before splitting horses (Conveyance and Noble's Promise) at the top of the stretch going on to win the run for the roses by two and one-half lengths over a fast closing Ice Box from the Nick Zito Barn.  He completed the mile and one-quarter in a final time of 2:04.45 on a track labeled as sloppy.

After the late defection of probable post-time favorite Eskendereya things looked bleak for Todd Pletcher going into Derby day for the most successful trainer to ever be 0 for 24 with starters in the three-year-old classic.  After the favorite scratched anything was possible and Pletcher was able to earn his first victory in The Derby at the same time Calvin Borel was winning his third Derby in the last four years.

"It feels awfully good," said Pletcher, "Everyone kept saying there was one out there with our name on it, but we didn't take anything for granted." And then Pletcher would go on to boast of Borel, he is "a great rider everywhere, but he's five lengths better at Churchill Downs."

"It feels terrific," Pletcher said. "The one thing that was important to me was that I wanted to do it while my parents were still here to see it. It'll soak in in a day or two. I've dreamed of winning the Kentucky Derby my whole life. Now that it has happened I don't know what to feel or say. I wish I could wax poetic. It's all still soaking in."

As for the actual post-time favorite, Lookin At Lucky, he would not fare as well.  After breaking from the one hole he was shortly pinched back after the start and then had to take up while traveling under the wire for the first time.  He didn't get any clear running until they were over half way down the backstretch and while he rallied in the far turn he could not regain on the leaders and finished a distant sixth.  All things considered not a bad finish considering his race was all but over in the first turn.

Super Saver's win was his third in seven lifetime starts.  He is a three-year-old Maria's Mon colt out of an A.P. Indy dam, Supercharger.  This year he was third in the Tampa Bay Derby and the ran second in the Arkansas Derby in April.

Churchill Downs put on a great card, despite the bad weather, as 155,804 patrons filled the Kentucky track to see a great card and cap a great weekend which saw The Kentucky Oaks run on Friday with an undercard which had the entry of Rachel Alexandra running for the second time this year.  All in all the television coverage is getting predictable.  ESPN continues to trot out the same old boiler plate program with Randy Moss and Jerry Bailey trying to carry the entire cast as NBC did the regular competent job showing a great American classic race.  See you at Pimlico.

See below for complete Derby recap:
 
Kentucky Derby 136 Recap:

Twenty three-year-olds were sent from the starting gate for the 136th running of The Kentucky Derby.  Conveyance would dart from the twelve hole and make the lead and take the field through the opening three-quarters in 1:10.58  .Sidney's Candy was able to sit a length off the leader in second position while Line Of David was another two lengths back in third.  Down the backside and into the far turn Nobles' Promise would take the lead as Super Saver would come up the inside into stalking position in second with the filly Devil May Care just to the outside with Conveyance starting to weaken as the field made its way into the lane.  In the stretch Super Saver came off the rail just long enough to pass a rival and then moved back to the fence passing leader Noble's Promise and then drew off to win the Run For The Roses by two and one-half lengths stopping the tele-timer in 2:04.45.  Ice Box closed well late to get up by a neck over the rallying Paddy O'Prado as the two finished second and third.  Make Music For Me was up for fourth as former leader Noble's Promise was fifth.  Postime favorite Lookin At Lucky rallied for the sixth spot.  Super Saver is a three-year-old bay colt owned and bred by WinStar Farm LLC, trained by Todd A. Pletcher and was ridden by Calvin H. Borel.