Long Shots: At 50-1, Make Mine That Bird
The 50-1 shot showed up at Churchill Downs in a trailer hitched to his trainer’s Ford pickup, after a 21-hour drive from a little racetrack in New Mexico.
In his last race at that same hardscrabble track, Mine That Bird came in fourth.
That’s all part of Kentucky Derby lore now, after jockey Calvin Borel, famous for his rides along the rail at Churchill, pulled it off again, winning the Run for the Roses for the second time in three years.
