Mine That Bird pulled into the Churchill Downs stable gate Thursday
evening and was soon bedded down in Barn 44, where four other Kentucky
Derby winners have been stabled through the years with his new trainer,
D. Wayne Lukas.
Lukas has signs posted at his stable entrance that list his
Kentucky Oaks and Derby winners but joked that he won't be adding on
the name of Mine That Bird, who won the 2009 Derby when trained by Chip
Woolley.
"We can't take much credit," said Lukas. "But it is an
opportunity, and I feel fortunate that they picked us to maybe bring
him back to the prominence that he enjoyed here a year ago."
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