Steven Crist

  1:30 pm: About 83 minutes to the start of the pick-6 at Churchill Downs, where racing resumed today for the first time since nobody picked six on Derby Day. So there's $514k in the kitty for a tough sequence, one of four carryovers today at Churchill and Hollywood. There's also a $220k Super High Five carryover at Churchill after nobody tabbed the top five in the Derby, and carryovers of $107k in the pick-5 (starts with race 1 at 4 pm ET/1 pm PT) and $91k in the pick-6 (starts with the 3rd at 5:03 ET/2:03 PT) at Hollywood.

Commingled handle on Saturday's Kentucky Derby Day card was up $2.1 million (1.33 %) from 2010 despite a $1.1 million drop in bets on, or ending with, the Derby itself. Handle for the 13-race card totalled $161.1 million, up from $159.0 in 2010. (This includes all money merged into he parimutuel pools with the exception of the two-day Oaks/Derby double and Oaks/Turf Classic/Derby pick-3, for which reliable figures are as yet unavailable.)

11:30 a.m.: Happy Derby Day, where the first headline was " 'Uncle' Romps at Churchill" -- not the scratched Uncle Mo in the Derby, alas, but Uncle Pink, a runaway winner of the opener, a starter-allowance for 3-year-olds who have raced for a $25k tag.

12:15 pm: Wake up already. It may be only 9:15 am in California, but they've already run the first four races on the Kentucky Oaks card, and it's just a little more than an hour until the first of six straight stakes races at Churchill Downs, culminating with the $1 million Kentucky Oaks at 5:45 p.m.