{"id":9093,"date":"2012-05-05T19:33:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T00:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2012-05-05T19:50:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T00:50:25","slug":"ill-have-another-at-13-1-in-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9093","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Have Another at 13-1 in Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ll Have Another, an $11,000 purchase as a yearling, overtook front-runner Bodemeister in the final strides of the Kentucky Derby to claim $1.5 million and a 1 1\/2-length victory at 13-1. It was the first Derby ride for Mario Gutierrez, and the first Derby win for owner J. Paul Reddam, as well as trainer Doug O’Neil.<\/p>\n

Today also marked the first time in history the Derby has been won by a horse from post position #19. Despite the handicap of the next-to-last outside post, I’ll Have Another and Gutierrez manuevered effortlessly to the inside, then ran down second-favorite Bodemeister, at 5-1, who had opened up a 5-length lead coming into the stretch, while setting the fifth fastest set of early fractions in the 138-year history of the race, including the first half in 45.1.<\/p>\n

“He is so professional for his age,” said Gutierrez of I’ll Take Another, who he has ridden to 3 wins from 3 starts this year, including the Robert Lewis Stakes at odds of 43-1, and the Santa Anita Derby on April 7. “I always said I would pick this horse over any in the field.”<\/p>\n

“He is such a mature colt,” added Reddam, a former University of Southern California philosophy professor turned president of a financial company, who also races harness horses in California and his native Canada.<\/p>\n

Betting favorite Union Rags, at 9-2, paid for his slow break to finish sixth; Dullahan (11-1), winner of the Blue Grass Stakes and half-brother to 2009 Derby winner Mine That Bird, placed third at 11-1; Went The Day Well (28-1) finished fourth; and Creative Cause (12-1) was fifth.<\/p>\n

Bred by Clarke Harvey and sired by Flower Alley with a stud fee of $7,500, I’ll Have Another sold for $11,000 as a yearling, then was sold again, for $35,000 in the Ocala Breeders 2-Year-Old Sale. Bodemeister, by comparison sold for $260,000 at the Keeneland September Sale.<\/p>\n

“I think he showed what a brilliant horse he is,” said three-times Derby winner and Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert of Bodemeister, who would have been the first horse in history to win the Derby without racing as a 2-year-old. “I told Mike (Smith) to let him run the way he wanted to run and I am proud of him.”<\/p>\n

Bodemeister, owned by Zayat Stables and sired by Empire Maker, won the April 14 Arkansas Derby, while Baffert was in Dubai <\/a>recovering from the heart attack he suffered there six weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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