LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Moonshine Mullin, who could have been claimed less than 10 months ago for $25,000, left some of the best older horses in America in his wake Saturday night when he captured the Grade 1, $552,500 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs. With Hall of Fame jockey Calvin Borel aboard, Moonshine Mullin finished 1 3/4 lengths clear of a belated run by favored Will Take Charge to return $22 to win as sixth choice in a field of nine. It was a neck back to Departing in third, while Mylute was another 2 1/4 lengths behind when best in a three-horse photo for fourth. Moonshine Mullin broke from post 3 and always appeared comfortable while outside, stalking 80-1 shot Jaguar Paw through fractions of 23.98 and 47.91 seconds. Leaving the half-mile pole, Moonshine Mullin loped to the lead, but then Departing moved menacingly to his outside through six furlongs in 1:12.42. After straightening away, Departing just couldn’t put away Moonshine Mullin, and by the furlong pole, with Borel sticking closest to the rail as he often does, Moonshine Mullin began edging away. He finished the 1 1/8-mile distance in 1:49.66 over fast going. Trained by Randy Morse for Randy Patterson, Moonshine Mullin is a 6-year-old Kentucky-bred horse by Albert the Great. Patterson claimed him for $40,000 in November at Remington Park after he had been claimed by other connections for $25,000 in late August. “Randy had him ready to go,” said Borel. “He’s a nice, nice horse.” Will Take Charge, the 5-2 favorite under Gary Stevens, rallied from eighth but was no threat to the winner. He carried high weight of 123 pounds and spotted five pounds to the winner. “We ran our race,” said Stevens. “He struggled a little the first sixteenth of a mile, and we had to go wide and that cost us some ground. But the colt really gave me what he had. He showed up.” Jockey Robby Albarado gave Departing, the 3-1 second choice, no excuses. “He had me right where we needed to be,” said Albarado. “He ran a big race.” After the top four, the order was Golden Ticket, Revolutionary, Long River, Prayer for Relief, and Jaguar Paw. Mike Smith also had no excuses for Revolutionary, the 7-2 third choice and winner of the Pimlico Special in his last start. “I didn’t have a straw in my path,” said Smith. The Foster is a Win and You’re In race toward the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita. Morse, a longtime Midwest-based trainer, said he had no definite next race in mind for the horse. It was the first Grade 1 victory of his 34-year training career. “This is great,” he said. “I think I rode harder than Calvin did.” For Borel, the three-time Kentucky Derby-winning jockey, this was his second Foster victory, following a 71-1 stunner in 2006 aboard Seek Gold. Moonshine Mullin now has won five straight races, the first being an allowance victory on Feb. 13 at Oaklawn Park. Leading into the Foster, he won the Grade 2 Alysheba on the Kentucky Oaks card at nearly 7-1 with Borel up. Overall, he now has 9 wins from 32 starts and earnings of $1,014,361. The $2 exacta (3-4) paid $102.20, the $1 trifecta (3-4-6) returned $256.50, and the 10-cent superfecta (3-4-6-5) was worth $265.35. Trophy presented to California Chrome connections  Perry Martin and Steve Coburn were on hand Saturday night to accept the engraved trophy as co-owners and breeders of Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome during a presentation earlier in the evening. The brief ceremony was amicable and was met mostly with appreciative cheers from the crowd. Neither trainer Art Sherman nor his son, Alan, was in attendance. Retired jockey Jose Espinoza accepted the jockey’s trophy on behalf of his brother, Victor Espinoza.