Derby Winner Hits the Road

7/24/2009 9:54 AM  | bloodhorse.com
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2 May 2009: Mine That Bird and jockey Calvin Borel score the 50-1 upset victory in the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. A trailer carrying Double Eagle Ranch and Buena Serte Equine's Mine That Bird, winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), departed Churchill Downs the morning of July 24 on an approximately seven-hour journey to West Virginia's Mountaineer Racetrack Casino and Resort.

"We’re ready to go," said Woolley. "You get to looking forward to going to run again and it gets kind of drab after you’ve been a while not running. I’m kind of excited about going and being to a new place we hadn’t been. So I think it’ll be a lot of fun. As much as I hate leaving Louisville and Churchill, it’s going to be fun to move on down the road."
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