Horse Racing News

Here are just a few observations from Saturday's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

Kentucky Oaks heroine Blind Luck may make her next start in the $250,000 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park on June 26, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Sunday.

Jeremy Noseda, the trainer of Gotham Stakes winner Awesome Act, said he believes a wet track would benefit his horse in Saturday's Kentucky Derby.

Calvin Borel boldly predicted he's going to win the Triple Crown after Super Saver sloshed to a 2.5-length victory in the Kentucky Derby.

It stormed all morning; thunder and lightning, hail and wind, enough rain to float a Noah's Ark

Jockey Calvin Borel steered Super Saver through the mud to win his third Kentucky Derby in four years. The win ended trainer Todd Pletcher's Derby drought.

Phola's ascension into a top-flight turf filly continued Saturday at Churchill Downs as the daughter of Johannesburg unleashed a powerful kick down the stretch to sweep past the field and win the Churchill Distaff Turf Mile by 1 1/4 lengths.

Last year, at age 2, Hot Dixie Chick won the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga. Buckleupbuttercup? She won a $30,000 maiden-claimer.

Before Saturday's Grade 1, $300,000 Humana Distaff, California invader Mona De Momma had never raced on dirt, much less a sloppy track - yet it was never apparent in her Humana performance.

Tom McCarthy, the local school principal turned owner and trainer, could not turn last year's Kentucky Derby into a storybook finish with his lone horse, General Quarters, but he returned a year later and won the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic.