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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.

Last Updated: May 1, 2010 5:48pm EST
Pool Total: $23,499,229.54

Lookin At Lucky, America’s champion 2-year-old of 2009 and a winner of six of eight career starts, has been installed as the 3-1 morning line favorite for Saturday’s 136th running of America’s greatest race, the $2 million-guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) at Churchill Downs.

The Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel of thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown, is the largest single day sporting event in the state of Maryland with attendance figures topping six-figures in eight of the last 10 years, including a record 121,263 in 2007.

The Preakness Stakes will be held at Pimlico Racecourse at May 15, 2010. The Gates Open at 8AM EST and the First Race Post Time is 10:30AM. The Preakness Post Time is 6:05PM EST.

Starting post positions for the 135th Preakness Stakes will be drawn Wednesday afternoon, May 12, 2010. Pimlico racing officials will use a pill pull, which employs a small numbered ball in a blind draw, to decide post positions for the middle jewel of racing’s Triple Crown. HRTV will broadcast it.

The Preakness post position draw is scheduled for 5 p.m. at Pimlico’s Turfside Terrace. Connections will be available for media interviews immediately following the draw.

NBC Sports exclusive coverage of the Preakness begins at 4:30 p.m. Post time for the middle leg of the Triple Crown is 6:15.

Race Details:
Distance: 1 3/16 miles (9.5 furlongs)
Track: Dirt, Left-handed
Qualification: 3-year-old
Weight: Colt/Gelding - 126 lb (57.2 kg), Filly - 121 lb (54.9 kg)
Purse: US$1.1 million

Last year’s winner was Calvin Borel on Rachel Alexandra. Watch the 2009 Preakness race replay

Blind Luck the favorite 6-5 won by a nose at Kentucky Oaks 2010.

All sources wagering on the Kentucky Oaks, America’s premier race for 3-year-old-fillies, was $10.6 million, a 55 percent increase over the 2009 total. All sources wagering on the 2010 Kentucky Oaks Day card was $36.0 million, a 20 percent increase over the 2009 total, and the all-time record.

Today’s win by Blind Luck, owned by Mark DeDomenico, John Carver, Peter Abruzzo and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, is Hollendorfer’s third as a trainer and second as a co-owner. He won the Oaks in 1991 with Lite Light, and again in 1996 with Pike Place Dancer.

Blind Luck, sent off as the 6-5 favorite, returned $4.60, $3.60 and $2.80. Evening Jewel paid $9.40 and $7.20 with Tidal Pool returning $5 to show. Completing the field in order were Beautician, Ailalea, Amen Hallelujah, Crisp, Quiet Temper, It’s Tea Time, Joanie’s Catch, Champagne d’Oro, Age of Humor, Jody Slew and Bella Diamante.

Diane Lane is attending the Kentucky Deryb for the first time in her life. The 45-year-old former Oscar nominee plays horse owner Penny Chenery in the movie “Secretariat,” due out Oct. 8 and co-starring John Malkovich. Some of the filming was done at Churchill Downs racetrack.

The movie about the 1973 Triple Crown winner follows the story of how Chenery took over her ailing father’s racing stable despite her limited knowledge of the sport. Against the odds, she succeeded in the male-dominated sport as Secretariat swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont stakes.

“I was very impacted by the heroism of Secretariat’s performance,” Lane said at the Kentucky Derby Museum. “I feel so humbled and hopeful to honor everything that’s involved in the story.”

Lane and Chenery served as grand marshals of Thursday’s Pegasus Parade through the streets of downtown Louisville.

Lookin At Lucky (3-1), early Kentucky Derby favorite, starts from post 1 and Sidney’s Candy, the 5-1 second choice, didn’t fare any better at the opposite end of the starting gate — No. 20 — and will be taking the widest trip around Churchill Downs.

By compromising the two favorites, the Derby becomes a wide-open race a year after 50-1 shot Mine That Bird pulled off a last-to-first stunner under a rail-hugging ride by Calvin Borel.

Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia said the inauspicious No. 1 position didn’t significantly affect Lookin At Lucky’s odds and that he’ll still go off at 3-1, in part because Sidney’s Candy, the second choice at 5-1, drew the No. 20 position.

Although the No. 1 position has produced 12 Derby winners since 1900, tied for the most all time, many of those wins came before the field expanded to 20 horses. No horse has won starting on the rail since Ferdinand in 1986. Big Brown won from the No. 20 post in 2008 but was only the second horse to accomplish that feat.

The entire field will have to overcome a dismal forecast that calls for a 60 percent chance of rain Saturday, with accumulations of up to 2 inches.

The field from the rail out is: Lookin At Lucky, 3-1; Ice Box, 10-1; Noble’s Promise, 12-1; Super Saver, 15-1; Line of David, 30-1; Stately Victor, 30-1; American Lion, 30-1; Dean’s Kitten, 50-1; Make Music for Me, 50-1; Paddy O’Prado, 20-1; Devil May Care, 10-1; Conveyance, 12-1; Jackson Bend, 15-1; Mission Impazible, 20-1; Discreetly Mine, 30-1; Awesome Act, 10-1; Dublin, 12-1; Backtalk, 50-1; Homeboykris, 50-1; and Sidney’s Candy, 5-1.

The draw just ended and the following is the 2010 Kentucky Derby post positions, jockey and trainer info, and morning lines.