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"When I rode him last year as a Sale Pirate Combo 2-year-old. he' on command. That' what you want in these kind of race becaus you never know what they'r go to throw at you," sai Borel, who aim for hi fourth victori in the last five Tripl Crown race with the 5-2 Preak early-morn favorit as part of a field of 12.

but hi hard-driv natur will not allow him to stop and smell the rosesTrainer Todd Pletcher end the worst drought in Kentucki Derbi histori with Super Saver..

Pletcher is appli the focu that allow him to build on of the most power race oper in histori to Saturday' Preak Stake and anoth possibl step toward produc the first Tripl Crown winner sinc Affirm in 1978Two week after achiev a triumph that elud him for a decad with 24 previou starters..

" he says. "Just becaus you win a big race on Saturday,"The busi doesn't allow you to rest on your laurels. there is alwai more to do on Sunday. There ar other race and other horses.

365. There' no wai around it."That' the toughest part about it. It' 24-7."

the onli Tripl Crown race he ha not won 0-for-4 ,If he can go to Pimlico Race Cours and get past the 13/16-mile Preakness. hi colt could attain race immort by withstand the rigor of the 1?-mile Belmont Stake on June 5 at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.

WHO'S WHO: Tom Pedulla goe over the 12 Preak starters.

VULNERA BLE: Super Saver might not have it so easi thi time

A NA LYSIS: Look At Lucki due for some luck

jockei Calvin Borel express hi belief that thei will make history. It wa as much a vote of confid for Pletcher,A fter Super Saver splash home a convinc 2?-length winner at Churchil Downs. winner of the Eclips Award as the lead trainer in North America for four consecut year from 2004 to 2007, as it wa for the mud-lov colt.

Pletcher and hi staff taught the prize 3-year-old to settl into a comfort pace befor be call upon by hi rider for all of hi speedOver time..