I’LL HAVE ANOTHER (Winner) – “The highest of the highs,” trainer Doug O’Neill said Sunday morning of the emotions that winning Kentucky Derby 138 brought.

The colt, owned by J. Paul Reddam’s Reddam Racing LLC, looked the picture of health as he exited Stall 17 in Barn 3 to get his legs washed off at 6:20 Sunday morning.

“He looks great this morning and a key thing is he ate up last night after the race,” said O’Neill, who finally got around to having dinner with his team after midnight.

It was a record-breaking 138th running of the $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands. A crowd of 165,307, the largest in history, gathered on a beautiful day at Churchill Downs Racetrack and watched Reddam Racing LLC’s California-based I’ll Have Another rally to defeat favored Bodemeister, capturing the Garland of Roses and America’s greatest race.  

The on-track attendance erased the previous record of 164,858, set just last year.  The record attendance prior to 2011 was the crowd of 163,628 who gathered for the 100th Kentucky Derby in 1974.  

Priscilla Vaccarezza’s Little Mike continued a major afternoon for trainer Dale Romans by posting a front-running 2 ½-length triumph over Slim Shadey (GB) in the 26th running of the $561,500 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (Grade I) on Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs.

    Earlier on the Kentucky Derby Day card, Romans sent out Shackleford to a victory in the Churchill Downs Presented by Navistar (GII).

Fred Bradley, trainer Buff Bradley, Carl Hurst and Brent Burns’ Groupie Doll made shambles of the field in winning the 26th running of the $334,500 Humana Distaff (Grade I) for fillies and mares by 7 ¼ lengths in track record time.

    Ridden by Rajiv Maragh, Groupie Doll ran the seven furlongs on a fast main track in 1:20.44 to break the track record of 1:20.50 set by Alannan on May 5, 2001 and the stakes record of 1:20.70 established by Dream Supreme in 2001.