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chestnut colt -- sold for a paltry $11,000, ridden by a rookie jockey hardly anyone knew and stuck in an outside post -- blazed past highly regarded Bodemeister to win by 1 1-2 lengths on Saturday, beating one of the deepest fields in years.
• I'll Have Another stormed out of post No. 19 -- the first winner from there in 138 runnings of the Derby -- and bided his time back in mid-pack while Bodemeister set a blistering pace on a muggy, 85-degree afternoon at Churchill Downs.
• "He's an amazing horse. I kept telling everybody, from the first time I met him, I knew he was the one. I knew he was good," jockey Mario Gutierrez said. "I said in an interview, even if they allowed me to pick from the whole rest of the field, I would have stayed with him, 100 percent, no doubt about it."
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