The bay colt, owned by the Ol Memorial Stable of University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino and Michael Tabor, will gallop the rest of Derby week, according to the schedule of Zito, who won the Derby in 1991 with Strike the Gold and in '94 with Go for Gin. Trainer Tony Richey said that Arctic Boy would run in Saturday's Kentucky Derby rather than in an allowance race on Saturday's card. The horse is doing well. The owner has been in Texas and he has just been reading news reports and watching TV about what is going on here. Something just told me to walk him today.
Nobody really knows now anyway.
If we win Saturday, we'll look like geniuses. Calvin Borel will have the mount on Arctic Boy, who comes into the Derby off a last-place finish in the Arkansas Derby. We threw out the Arkansas Derby. He was on the Derby watch list as a contender up until the Arkansas Derby and, if it was the racetrack, he was still on the Derby watch. The Derby was in the back of our minds, and that's why we made kind of a late decision.