Haskin's Derby Report: Lucky No. 1?

A.E. Housman’s famous poem says it all: “When I was one-and-twenty.”

Oh, the irony of it all. Had Lookin at “Lucky” drew No. 1 in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) in any year from 1998 to 2009, he would have had the No. 1 choice of post position in the selection process that was used during those years. But with the return to the tradition draw, No. 1 meant post position, not selection order. And, we all know no one wants Post 1.