Saturday, May 02, 2009

New Mexico Owned Horse Wins Kentucky Derby!

Mine That Bird at 50-1 turned a sloppy Churchill Downs track into his personal playground by winning the 135th Kentucky Derby Saturday in the second-biggest upset in America's most celebrated race. Calvin Borel guided the unheralded Kentucky-bred gelding along the rail in a dramatic stretch run to win the $2 million race by six-and-three-quarter lengths over Pioneerof the Nile. Borel flew past 12 horses by using a move similar to the one he applied aboard Street Sense to win the 2007 Derby...Reuters

Mine That Bird is owned by Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach, and he will also be the first Derby starter for the New Mexico residents. Allen and Blach purchased the Birdstone gelding privately last fall after he won three stakes at Woodbine, including the Grey Stakes (Can-III), but he has not won since. His best showing as a 3-year-old came in Sunland Park’s Borderland Derby when he finished second by a neck...BloodHorse

1 comment:

Phillip Huggan said...

Is the pork industrially globalized? That is, if you slaughter pigs in New Zealand, adjusting for transportation costs would this have the same effect on pork supplies in Thailand as if you slaughtered pigs in Brazil?

Can the pork industry regenerate easily? If you slaughter a given % of piggies, assuming farm supports can farm capacity be restored easily within say, two years by making imports from unslaughtered capacity? I guess I'm asking the adult pig population doubling time assuming unlimited $$.