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Rejuvenated Desormeaux fueled by Derby

By Marty McGee
Daily Racing Form

Thursday, April 24, 2008

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kent Desormeaux said he remembers his first Kentucky Derby ride "like it was yesterday." Eighteen years old and riding a longshot named Purdue King in the 1988 running, Desormeaux was in danger of finishing last before he took drastic action. "I almost dropped somebody," he recalled. "If you go back and watch the tape, way in the back, I'm coming over on another horse coming up the rail. It was horrible, but I sure didn't want to get embarrassed by running last in my first De ...

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