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Big Brown Takes 134th Running of the Kentucky Derby
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Pre-race favorite Big Brown, charging out of the outside post, won the 134th Kentucky Derby to
become the seventh unbeaten Derby winner. The colt became the first Derby winner since Regret in 1915 to have raced only three times previously. The winning margin for Big Brown and jockey Kent Desormeaux was four and three-quarters lengths. The winning time was 2:01.82 in front of the second-largest crowd in Derby history, 157,770. This was Desormeaux's third Derby victory. He's the eighth jockey to have won at least three Derbies. He called his ride "a beautiful, uneventful trip." Following Eight Belles across the finish line was Denis of Cork in third place. The Preakness, the second leg of the Triple Crown, will take place in two weeks at Pimlico in Baltimore. There has not been a Triple Crown winner since Affirmed 30 years ago.
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