Performance
- Longest winning margin since 1946 when Assault won by 8 lengths
- Calvin Borel is the first jockey since Jerry Bailey in 1993 to win the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby in the same year. Borel won the Kentucky Oaks aboard Rachel Alexandra
- Mine That Bird is the first Sovereign Award as champion two-year-old colt (2008) in Canada since Sunny's Halo (1983)
- Mine That Bird winning odds of 50.60-1 is the second highest in Derby history after Donerail (1913)
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Famous quotes containing the word performance:
“So long as the source of our identity is external—vested in how others judge our performance at work, or how others judge our children’s performance, or how much money we make—we will find ourselves hopelessly flawed, forever short of the ideal.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)
“Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the emotional shock of domestic distress. Even a mediocre performance at the office can help a person repair self-esteem damaged in domestic battles.”
—Faye J. Crosby (20th century)
“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)