ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – It was a good opening weekend at Arlington for trainer Jim DiVito, who won with three of the six horses he sent out, and DiVito has a good chance to start the second week of the meeting in similar style when he saddles Calmer Than You in the featured first race Wednesday.

Orb vanquished 18 horses in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday, and as of Monday it looked like as many as seven of them would try again, and four newcomers were set to join the party, when the Triple Crown trail shifts to Pimlico for the Preakness Stakes on May 18.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With no perfect tickets sold Saturday for the $1 super high five wager on the Kentucky Derby, a carryover of $303,033 awaits Churchill Downs horseplayers Thursday following a four-day break in live racing.

The super high five will be held on the last of nine Thursday races. Entries for both the Thursday and Friday cards at Churchill were to be drawn Tuesday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Two veterans with experience in the Kentucky Derby were the stars at Betfair Hollywood Park on Saturday.

As widely expected, Dayatthespa  made a successful return to the races at Belmont Park on Sunday, laying just off early pacesetter My Jopia to the far turn, taking command on the turn, and shrugging off a challenge from Kibosh to win the $90,000 You Go West Girl Stakes for New York-bred fillies and mares.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Teddy’s Promise won the $93,850 Time to Leave Stakes for the second consecutive year at Betfair Hollywood Park on Sunday. This year, she had a much easier win than her half-length score in 2012.

Sunday, Teddy’s Promise stalked the early pace shared by Magical Band and Hidinginplainsight, rallied on the rail on the turn and pulled away to win by 4 1/4 lengths without significant urging from jockey Victor Espinoza.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Pyrite Mountain rallied strongly from last to upset reigning Canadian Horse of the Year Uncaptured in Sunday’s $116,600 Wando Stakes at Woodbine.

Midnight Aria set quick fractions in the 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds, while being tracked by Uncaptured and Tesseron. Pyrite Mountain raced inside about seven lengths off the pace on the backstretch, before moving into contention on the far turn.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan exited his win in Saturday’s Grade 1 Woodford Reserve at Churchill Downs in good condition, trainer Charlie LoPresti said, and will likely be pointed for a summer/fall turf campaign like the one he had in 2012.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – There are times when horse racing can produce maddening, inexplicable results, waved away with a shrug and a common refrain, “That’s horse racing.”

Then there are times when everything comes together as if pre-ordained. The best jockey, on the best horse, prepared by the best trainer, bred by a family that has been competing at the top of racing for generations, wins the Kentucky Derby.[:slideshow-right:]

That, too, is horse racing.

Total betting on the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday was $130.5 million, according to the race chart, down 2.2 percent from the record total of $133.5 million bet last year but still the second-highest figure of all time.