1992 Santa Anita Derby - A.P. Indy

The $2.9-million yearling, the most expensive sold in 1990, might be worth Japanese businessman Tomonori Tsurumaki's investment. A.P. Indy won the Santa Anita Derby by 1 3/4 lengths, beating Bertrando and Casual Lies before an on-track crowd of 38,346 with a late stretch move that behooves a 3-year-old who will be asked to run an eighth of a mile farther in Kentucky.
Bertrando, second by a neck over Casual Lies after setting the pace from the start, is another Churchill Downs candidate on May 2, and Shelley Riley, Casual Lies' owner-trainer, indicated that her colt also would be Kentucky Derby-bound.
Over a track that was listed as fast but was dull from recent rain, the winning time for 1 1/8 miles was 1:49 1/5, two seconds slower than the stakes record and the slowest for a Santa Anita Derby winner in nine years. Still, in the absence of any firepower from the East, A.P. Indy probably will be the second betting choice for the Kentucky Derby, assuming Arazi, last year's champion 2-year-old colt, has no trouble in his only Churchill Downs prep race on Tuesday near Paris.
"Being second (betting choice) might not be too bad," said A.P. Indy's trainer, Neil Drysdale, who will be taking his first horse to the Derby. "I read in the paper where the Derby favorites (since 1980) never win the race."
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