Curly was pushed wide, wide, wider than Big Brown in the Derby (officially 7 wide). Amazingly, Curly kept coming and coming.

Smart Sugar, a chestnut Smarty Jones filly out of the Deputy Minister mare, Ashraaf, worked 2 furlongs at Hollywood Park recording a time of :26.20. Ashraaf earned $137,480 and won as a 2-year old. She has had one previous foal, Just Regal, who finished 11th in her first and only start on February 23, 2008 at Gulfstream.

Jubilee Star (Proud Citizen - Evil by Hennessy) possesses impressive family connections as he is a half-brother to Tiz Wonderful who won the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (gr. II) and the Iroquois Stakes (gr. III) in 2006 and has earned $254,672.