LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The game plan that Carl Nafzger used in getting Street Sense to win the Kentucky Derby apparently has an addendum.

By breezing five furlongs at Churchill Downs in 1:00 on Tuesday, the day before he was to be flown to Baltimore for the 132nd Preakness, Street Sense added another flawless chapter to his trainer's script. "Perfect," is how Nafzger described the work, just as he had unfailingly described the manner in which Street Sense had approached the May 5 Derby, which the colt won by

2 1/4 lengths in brilliant fashion.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - From the Louisiana bayou to the White House for dinner and a visit with the Queen of England. That's how far Calvin Borel has come.

Borel, who gave a textbook ride in guiding Street Sense to a

2 1/4-length victory Saturday in the 133rd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, left Louisville early Monday with his fiancee, Lisa Funk, for a white-tie dinner with President Bush and Queen Elizabeth II later that evening. Borel becomes the first winning jockey in Derby history to be invited to the White House.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The best 2-year-old on the first Saturday in November proved the best 3-year-old on the first Saturday in May, as Street Sense became the first Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner to capture the in the 133rd Derby at Churchill Downs.

Street Sense also became the first 2-year-old champion to win the Derby since Spectacular Bid in 1979. Street Sense's trainer, Carl Nafzger, was winning the Derby for the second time, following Unbridled in 1990. His jockey, Calvin Borel, scored his first Derby victory, as did Jim Tafel, who bred and owns Street Sense.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It's wait till next year yet again for trainer Todd Pletcher.

Though by his own admission he brought the strongest hand he ever had to the Kentucky Derby, Pletcher failed to achieve victory in the world's most famous horse race. Pletcher saddled a record-equaling five horses in Saturday's Run for the Roses, and his best finish was Circular Quay, who finished sixth.

Pletcher's other runners were Any Given Saturday (8th), Sam P. (9th), Scat Daddy (18th), and Cowtown Cat (last of 20).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - For the second year in a row, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer won a graded stakes on the Kentucky Derby undercard when Hystericalady rallied to a surprisingly easy four-length victory over defending champion Pussycat Doll in the $300,000 Humana Distaff at Churchill Downs. The victory was the fourth on the afternoon for jockey Rafael Bejarano.

Hollendorfer, who saddled Bwana Bull in the Kentucky Derby, won the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Handicap last year with Trickey Trevor.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Todd Pletcher has five horses. Steve Asmussen, Bill Kaplan, Darrin Miller, and Doug O'Neill each have two. But all anyone will want to know about the 133rd Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs is who will be the one.

From Brad Free, Byron King, Steve Klein, Dave Litfin, Mike Watchmaker, Mike Welsch, and DRF handicappers

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - All the final preparations are over. Some works were better than others and one or two were quite unexpected, but all were designed with the same goal in mind - to get each of the 20 horses in the field to peak on Saturday for the 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Thoroughbred auction prices have been booming in recent years, and that has prompted some racehorse owners to turn to homebreeding in their quest for a Kentucky Derby horse.

The last three Derby winners - Smarty Jones in 2004, Giacomo in 2005, and Barbaro in 2006 - were all bred by their owners rather than purchased out of the auction ring. And seven of this year's Derby contenders are homebreds: Any Given Saturday, Circular Quay, Cowtown Cat, Nobiz Like Shobiz, Stormello, Street Sense, and Tiago.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Talk about being fashionably late.

Trainer Barclay Tagg arrived in Louisville shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday evening and made it to the post position draw downtown about three minutes before he had to select a post position for Nobiz Like Shobiz for Saturday's 133rd Kentucky Derby.