LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Always Dreaming, winner of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs, emerged from the race well and will be sent as soon as possible to Pimlico to prepare for the Preakness Stakes on May 20, trainer Todd Pletcher said Sunday morning.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - They had won more than 1,600 races together -- including a Belmont Stakes with a filly -- and for nearly two decades have been the dominant jockey-and-trainer combination in North American racing.

When it came to the Kentucky Derby, however, jockey John Velazquez and trainer Todd Pletcher had come up goose eggs, going winless in 11 prior years together dating to 2000, the first year Pletcher ran a horse in the race.

While both men had won the Kentucky Derby separately, they felt their careers wouldn’t be complete unless they could win one together.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Thunder Snow bucked wildly just after the start of the Kentucky Derby and did not finish the race, but all signs point to the colt being uninjured.

Thunder Snow was away slowly and almost immediately dropped to the tail of the field, and when jockey Christophe Soumillon threw the reins at him to try to urge his mount into the race, Thunder Snow bucked several times and quickly was pulled up.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For a guy still chasing the dream of winning his first Kentucky Derby, a dream deferred for at least another year, trainer Steve Asmussen seemed quite jubilant following Lookin At Lee’s second-place finish behind Always Dreaming in the Derby on Saturday.

“I’m so very proud of Lee,” said an enthused Asmussen, who had a giant smile on his face despite the Kentucky Derby remaining the only really significant item missing on his Hall of Fame résumé. “That’s just who he is. He just did what he always does, the way he performed out there today.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The single-ticket jackpot pool of the pick six was hit for $439,362 at Santa Anita on Thursday from a $5,300 ticket.

The single-ticket pool had not been hit since April 6, leading to a carryover of $349,792 into Thursday’s card. Bettors added $138,071 on Thursday.

The winning ticket was purchased through a Maryland-based hub, according to track officials.

The winners of the pick-six races were Demigoddess ($34), Madelyn’s Wild Max ($20.40), Exotic Ghost ($6), Call the Queen ($10.20), Zapperkat ($12.20), and Kona Dreams ($3.80).

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Norberto Arroyo has been suspended five racing days later this month for causing interference in a race at Santa Anita on April 30 and may drop appeals of seven other suspension days from March, according to his brother and agent, Nelson Arroyo.

Norberto Arroyo has been suspended May 14 and May 18-21 for causing interference aboard Buckys Pick in the ninth race on April 30, a one-mile maiden race on turf. Buckys Pick finished third and was disqualified and placed sixth.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Gorgeous Ginny became 2017’s first juvenile winner in Southern California with a victory in a maiden race for California-bred fillies at Santa Anita on Thursday.

Because of a lack of stakes for 2-year-olds in late spring, Gorgeous Ginny’s career will not resume until July. The gap in races is not an issue for trainer Robertino Diodoro.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Regardless of the outcome of Sunday’s Grade 3 Adoration Stakes at Santa Anita, two champions are lurking behind the scenes for the next race in California’s older-female division, the Grade 1 Beholder Mile on June 3.

Songbird, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2015 and champion 3-year-old filly of 2016, worked five furlongs Thursday from the gate in 1:03.80. The $400,000 Beholder Mile is scheduled to be her first start since a second to the champion Beholder in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff last November.

Trainer Linda Rice said Matt King Coal came out of his runner-up finish in the $1.25 million Charles Town Classic well and that she is considering two races for his next start.

“We were thinking about the Pimlico Special as a next race, but we might give him more time than that,” Rice said. “It’s more likely we go to the Suburban, with a race before to get him there.”

The $300,000 Pimlico Special, a 1 3/16-mile race, will be run May 19, a day before the Preakness. The Grade 2, $750,000 Suburban is a 1 1/4-mile race at Belmont on July 8.

As always, there are overlays and underlays for bettors who took a shot in any of the four pools in the 2017 Kentucky Derby Future Wager.

Perhaps the best bargain came in Pool 3, when Always Dreaming closed at 42-1. The colt likely will be no worse than the third choice Saturday.

Another likely favorite, Irish War Cry, was 26-1, 26-1, 7-1, and 21-1 in the four pools. The 7-1 came after he won the Holy Bull, and the 21-1 came after he ran poorly in the Fountain of Youth (and before he rebounded in the Wood Memorial).