Kentucky Derby Blog

Kentucky Derby 2010 Winner Super Saver was the favorite to win the Preakness Stakes, but luck was not on his side as he finished in eighth place, luck in fact was Lookin at Lucky who on May 15 became the 135th Preakness Stakes winner.

Trained by Bob Baffert Lookin at Lucky had an awesome race when he finished the 1 3/16 miles in just 1:55:47 just 3/4 length ahead of First Dude.

The other positions were the third place of Jackson Ben, 4th Yawanna Twist, 5th Dublin, 6th Paddy O’Prado, 7th Caracortado, 8th Super Saver, 9th Schoolyard Dreams, 10th Aikenite, 11th Pleasant Prince, and 12th Norther Giant.

Preakness Payouts

$2 Exacta 7-11 $188.60
$2 Trifecta 7-11-6 $2,771.00
$2 Superfecta 7-11-6-5 $17,126.00

The 2010 Preakness post positions were drawn today. Kentucky Derby hero Super Saver was installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite Wednesday in a field of 12 entered for Saturday’s 135^th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.

Lookin At Lucky, whose chances as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby were severely compromised when he drew the No. 1 post position, will attempt to rebound in the Preakness from the No. 7 post position. The 2009 juvenile champion, who will be ridden for the first time by Martin Garcia, was rated second in the morning line at 3-1.

1. Aikenite (20-1)

2. Schoolyard Dreams (15-1)

3. Pleasant Prince (20-1)

4. Northern Giant (30-1)

5. Yawanna Twist (30-1)

6. Jackson Bend (12-1)

7. Lookin at Lucky (3-1)

8. Super Saver (5-2)

9. Caracortado (10-1)

10. Paddy O’Prado (9-2)

11. First Dude (20-1)

12. Dublin (10-1)

Here are the 14 starters of 2010 Preakness Stakes. The post position will be drawn this Wednesday.

Woodlawn Vase
The elegant Woodlawn Vase, originally created by Tiffany and Company in 1860 as a trophy for the now defunct Woodlawn Racing Association in Louisville, is presented annually to the Preakness winner.

The beautiful silver design assessed in 1983 for $1 million, is easily the most valuable trophy in American sports.

Black-Eyed Susans
It remains a long-standing tradition to present the winner of the Preakness a blanket of Black-Eyed Susans, which is draped across the shoulders of the winning horse. The blanket is 18 inches wide and 90 inches in length.

Alibi Breakfast
It started with a cup of coffee. In the late 1930s on the porch of the historical Pimlico Clubhouse, a group of trainers, owners and greater and lesser dignitaries would gather in the mornings to expound upon the merits of their horses.

The group would meet at the first training period starting at 6:00AM and disperse when training ended at 10:00AM Notable trainers such as Yancey Christmas and
Horatio Luro would swap information with other gentlemen in the morning, offering no alibis, but telling some of the best racing stories to ever reach print.

Today’s Alibi Breakfast is a descendant of the original gathering at the Old Clubhouse. Named in the 1940s by publicity director David Woods, today’s Alibi
Breakfast features a gathering of media, owners, trainers, jockeys and horsemen to celebrate Preakness, and solicit interesting race predictions.

Fourteen horses will line up at the starting gate at Pimlico Race Course in just over a week for the $1 million Preakness Stakes.

Of course 2010 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver will be in the starting gate for the 2010 Preakness Stakes and the Triple Crown hopeful is likely to go off as the race favorite after his impressive performance at Churchill Downs. The Preakness Stakes is a shorter race and it will be interesting to see how he does if the weather is nicer at Pimlico than it was for the Kentucky Derby.

Ice Box, the second-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, will bypass the Preakness Stakes and move to the Belmont Stakes.

Bob Baffert could have two starters, if both Lookin At Lucky and Conveyance go.

Pletcher also is expected to have a second runner in the race in Aikenite, who was second in the Derby Trial but bypassed the Derby.

In addition to Aikenite, there are several newcomers to the Triple Crown trail expected for the Preakness.

Hurricane Ike, the Derby Trial winner, is possible for the race, said trainer John Sadler, who said his status would be determined after a workout that was scheduled for Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs.

Sadler said his Derby runners – Sidney’s Candy, who finished 17th, and Line of David, who was 18th – are both returning to California and will “be given a breather.”

Pleasant Prince, third in the Derby Trial, also is expected to run in the Preakness. He was entered in the Derby, but was one of two excluded from the field because of insufficient earnings in graded stakes races.

Other new shooters include Caracortado, a troubled fourth in the Santa Anita Derby; Schoolyard Dreams, most recently fourth in the Wood Memorial; and Turf Melody, who was fourth in the Illinois Derby.

A Little Warm, who was a possible Preakness runner, has been fighting a temperature since shipping last week from Florida to Delaware Park and is not currently under consideration for the race, trainer Tony Dutrow said Monday.

In his first trip to the track since his victory in the first leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday, WinStar Farm’s homebred Super Saver looked like anything but a tired horse as he jogged an easy mile over the Churchill Downs strip Wednesday morning.

“He came out of it well; I’m actually surprised how well,” said trainer Todd Pletcher, who saddled his first Derby winner in Super Saver. “It’s always tough when you have to run back (in the Preakness) on short rest, but all the signs we’re seeing are very positive.”

Super Saver is scheduled to head to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore for the Preakness Stakes on a flight on May 12, but just who will be alongside the son of Maria’s Mon is to be determined.

What the race replay of 2010 Kentucky Derby!

Order of finish results from the 2010 Kentucky Derby.

1st: Super Saver
2nd: Ice Box
3rd: Paddy O’Prado
4th: Make Music For Me
5th: Noble’s Promise
6th: Lookin at Lucky
7th: Dublin
8th: Stately Victor
9th: Mission Impazible
10th: Devil May Care
11th: American Lion
12th: Jackson Bend
13th: Discreetly Mine
14th: Dean’s Kitten
15th: Conveyance
16th: Homeboykris
17th: Sidney’s Candy
18th: Line of David
19th: Awesome Act
20th: Backtalk

The 2010 Kentucky Derby winner is Super Saver ridden by Calvin Borel. This is first Todd Pletcher’s first winning and Calvin Borel’s 3rd winning of the Kentucky Derby in 4 year span.

Ice Box finished 2nd and Paddy O’Prado finished 3rd.

Superb Saver returned  $18, $8.80 and $6.00.  The winners and payout for 2010 Kentucky Derby.

Exotic payouts:
$1 Daily Double 2-4 $147.40
$1 Exacta 4-2 $76.20
$1 Trifecta 4-2-10 $1,168.70
$1 Superfecta 4-2-10-9 $101,284.60
$1 Pick-3 9-2-4 $2,863.10
$1 Pick-4 10-9-2-4 $36,876.00

The field has been set for the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday from Churchill Down’s. The approximate Kentucky Derby post time for the race is of 6:24 pm EST on May 1st and 3.24 pm PST. You can watch it on NBC.

Lookin’ at Lucky was indeed lucky and drew post number 1. The Kentucky Derby betting online is expected to break all previous records. The pool total so far is $23,499,229.54.

Check out the current 2010 Kentucky Derby odds!

Rain pummeled Churchill Downs early Saturday, turning the historic track into a soggy mess for the Kentucky Derby, the latest wild card in a week full of them.

Heavy rains postponed early morning workouts Saturday, but all 20 Kentucky Derby horses were still expected to start. Trainers opted to trot their Derby hopefuls inside their barns instead.

Though the weather is wreaking havoc on the Derby undercard, it’s unlikely any of the top 3-year-olds will be scratched.

Light rainfall is expected throughout the afternoon, a reprieve of sorts after projections earlier in the week suggested the track could get hit with 3-6 inches of rain.

By post time for the first race around 10:30 a.m., the dirt looked something more like peanut butter, only a whole lot messier.

Experience in the muck is hard to find in the field, and trainer Bob Baffert says it’s impossible to tell how the top 3-year-olds will react when the starting gate opens for the 1 1/4-mile test.

The wettest Derby day was May 11, 1918, when 2.31 inches of rain fell, according to National Weather Service records.

The last horse before Mine That Bird to win in the mud was Smarty Jones, who splashed to victory in 2004. His son, Backtalk, is in the field Saturday and he’s 2 for 2 on a wet track.