Borel, who saddled last year's Derby winner, Street Sense, got a third-place finish this time from long-shot Denis of Cork. The horse was in last place at the three-quarter poll but rallied inside to show at the end.

"He ran a huge race," Borel said. "We saved every inch of ground we could just to get there."

Trainer David Carroll said the horse did the best he could considering he was coming from post 16.

"I think with an inside post, he would have been laying a little bit closer," Carroll said. "But, having said that, my horse ran his heart out."

Retired Papa. There won't be the typical spike in stud fees for the sire of Derby winner Big Brown. He has been retired from breeding.

Boundary, who has sired 21 stakes winners, lives at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., where he previously stood as a stallion.

The horse raced for two years, winning six of eight lifetime starts. His career as a stallion included 11 crops, 421 foals, 323 starters and 244 winners.

By comparison, Big Brown's dam, Mien, has produced just four foals, including two race winners.

Stage fright. Recapturetheglory's jockey, E.T. Baird, said his horse was skittish leaving the paddock. It didn't really show on the racetrack, though, as he finished a respectable fifth.

"He went to bucking and dropping his head, and he just dropped me in the tunnel," Baird said. "On the racetrack, he was all right."

Survival hopes. Trainer Michael Matz's spirits were heightened with news that Chelokee has a decent chance to survive as a breeder.

The colt broke down Friday in an undercard race for the Kentucky Oaks. He was diagnosed with a badly dislocated ankle and not a fracture as first feared.

Larry Bramlage, a veterinarian with Rood and Riddle Clinic in Lexington, Ky., said the horse will undergo surgery this week. The horse's racing career is over, and Bramlage gave Chelokee a 50-50 chance of survival.

Chelokee has won five of 10 lifetime starts, including the Barbaro Stakes last May on Preakness day at Pimlico. Barbaro, also trained by Matz, won the 2006 Kentucky Derby before breaking down in the Preakness and being euthanized months later.

Bramlage said the injury to the horses were similar, although Chelokee avoided a fracture. The 4-year-old colt showed a good appetite and was playful in the barn, he said.

Wet start. One minute he was winning the Kentucky Oaks and eyeing Kentucky Derby history, and the next he was waking up in a hotel room with a soaking floor.

Such was the morning after for Larry Jones, the trainer of Kentucky Oaks winner Proud Spell and Derby runner-up Eight Belles.

While Proud Spell had little trouble over the sloppy track at Churchill Downs during the Oaks on Friday, the Joneses weren't quite so fortunate. When they woke up yesterday the floor of their hotel room was soaked. The rain somehow made it through a closed window.

"You'd think for $500 a night we could get a dry floor," Cindy said.

Bad picks. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama didn't attend the race, but weighed in with their picks. No surprise, Clinton chose filly Eight Belles; Obama favored Colonel John.