Best KY Derby Trainer 2012

What a surprise! Matz's brilliant horse finishes up the track. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, some trainer, who is it, Patrick Byrne wins the Florida Derby. Avoiding images of Byrne since trainer in fact of Take Charge Indy quite likely is pictured at left.

How else do u explain a horse leading all the way in the Florida Derby off of zero recent races? Though the PPs indicate longer breezes than the erstwhile Michael Matz trained favorite, what shows on Patrick Byrne training is other than anything to write home about either. Enter Calvin Borel.

A faithful watcher of Street Sense and 2007 Derby training (or a dedicated reader of this blog) knows Borel takes those 5f breezes and turns them into mile works. Believe Borel learned this from Nafzger and Street Sense, and its probably a pretty good guess that Borel will insure his Derby mount in better fitness than the rest of this year's Derby field. This presumes, of course, that Byrne is able to get his charge to the Derby without injury(remember Borel's Arch Arch Arch), someting we'd be quite concerned regarding the PPs that show with Union Rags, who like a Plecher horse works just on the underside of fracture resistance. And so, a bit prematurely, we award the 2012 KY Derby training award to Calvin Borel. He will have earned it.