The original plan for Mine That Bird, trainer Bennie Wooley Jr., said here Sunday, was to run in the Derby, then move on to the Belmont Stakes, the last and, at 1 1/2 miles, longest of the Triple Crown races. But plans changed once Mine That Bird charged from last to first under jockey Calvin Borel to win the Derby by 6 3/4 lengths, earning a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 105. He will attempt to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.

Mine That Bird, who paid $103.20 and keyed a $2,074.80 exacta, was the second-longest priced winner in Derby history. He was so lightly regarded that he was part of the mutuel field in all three legs of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which returned $5.80 for pool 1, $11.80 for pool 2, and $36.80 for pool 3. The Derby future exacta, offered for the first time this year in pools 2 and 3, paid off to those who had the mutuel field over runner-up Pioneerof the Nile. The exacta paid $256.80 for poolo2 and $554.60 for pool 3.