LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When he guided Orb to a decisive triumph Saturday in the Kentucky Derby, jockey Joel Rosario completed an amazing run that began five weeks earlier with his victory aboard Animal Kingdom in the $10 million Dubai World Cup.
In between winning two of the most prestigious and important races in the world, Rosario also found time to set a record for victories at the Keeneland spring meet and to kick off the 2013 Churchill Downs season by winning five races on opening night.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It literally rained on trainer Todd Pletcher’s Kentucky Derby parade.
After a week where everything went swimmingly for the five-time Eclipse Award winning trainer, Pletcher’s quintet of Derby contenders floundered in the slop at Churchill Downs in the 139th Run for the Roses. The best Pletcher could do was a third-place finish with Revolutionary, the 6-1 second choice.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Here are the top-five finishers, with all available mutuel prices involving the 139th Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs:
Top 5 order of finish, $2 mutuels
1 – Orb, No. 16, win $12.80; place, $7.40; show $5.40
2 – Golden Soul, No. 4, place, $38.60; show, $19.40
3 – Revolutionary, No. 3, show, $5.40
4 – Normandy Invasion, No. 5
5 – Mylute, No. 6
Results and recap articles for the 2013 Kentucky Derby card at Churchill Downs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As of 1 p.m. Eastern, the updated forecast for the balance of Kentucky Derby Day is not encouraging.
With the main track at Churchill Downs already downgraded to sloppy and the turf course to good after several hours of a steady drizzle, there is little sign of a let-up, according to the latest forecast from TheWeather Channel.
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A full field of 20, headed by favored Orb and unbeaten Verrazano, will contest the Grade 1, $2 million Kentucky Derby Saturday at Churchill Downs.
Below is a closer look at the individual pedigrees and backgrounds of this year's entrants, in post position order.
The Kentucky Derby will be the first start at a mile and a quarter for each of the 20 horses expected to enter the gate for Saturday’s race.
With no previous form at the classic distance on which to base an opinion when analyzing the Derby horses, one of the most important factors will be their pedigrees, which can be a telling indicator of who might succeed when stretched out to ten furlongs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisiana Derby winner Revolutionary and Santa Anita Derby winner Goldencents were, somewhat surprisingly, the 5-1 co-choices over Florida Derby winner Orb when advance wagering closed for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby early Friday evening.
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