Super Saver Wins Wet Derby

On Thursday, I listed my four choices for winning today's Kentucky Derby. I listed the only filly running, and three boys. A colt I liked finished first; the other three horses finished 9th, 10th, and 11th. Super Saver won the race. He was guided on jockey Calvin Borel's usual rail-skimming path, saving ground the whole way, and only passing one horse on the outside. Ice Box was second, and Paddy O'Prado, whom Donna Brothers liked to win, finished third. My other picks of Mission Impazible, Devil May Care and American Lion finished in the middle of the pack. Todd Pletcher had tried to win the Kentucky Derby with 24 previous entries; today he had four; one won. Calvin Borel, on the other hand, has ridden in the past four Derbys - and won three out of four. He's the only jockey to be able to claim that - beating out Eddie Acaro, Willie Shoemaker, Gary Stevens, Eddie Delahoussaye, and Jerry Bailey.
It's a shame that Super Saver's sire, Maria's Mon, died the year Super Saver was born. In his short career as a stallion, Maria's Mon sired two Kentucky Derby winners - Monarchos, who won in 2001, and today's little bay winner - one from his first crop of foals, and one from his last.