"I'll Have Another" Wins The Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- "I'll Have Another" wins the Kentucky Derby.
"I'll Have Another" caught "Bodemeister" down the stretch and pulled away in the final furlong on Saturday to win the 138th running of theDerby.
Jockey Mario Gutierrez, riding in his first Derby, guided the 3-year-old colt ahead of Bob Baffert's Bodemeister and a late closing Dullahan to win on a fast track.
It was trainer Doug O'Neill's first Derby victory. He had never finished better than 13th in the Kentucky Derby with two other horses.
I'll Have Another, the Santa Anita Derby winner, went off at 15-1 in one the deepest and evenly balanced fields in recent years.
The victory was seen by a surging crowd of more than 165,000 which broke the attendance record at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby for the second consecutive year.
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