Mine That Bird pulls off upset

 
BY BETH HARRIS / AP Racing Writer
Published: May 3, 2009

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Calvin Borel was in a familiar place, along the rail and urging Mine That Bird to fly through the mud. Trainer Bennie Woolley Jr. was someplace he never imagined — the Kentucky Derby , with his horse in the lead.

Together they pulled off one of the greatest upsets in 135 years of America’s most famous horse race.

"It was a Street Sense move,” Borel said Satur...


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