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10th after three-quarters and sixth after a mile before crossing the finish line eighth, a head
behind Guennevara.

On the NBC broadcast, track announcer Larry Collmus said as the field went through the
final turn: "McCraken has been unleashed on the far outside."

But McCraken didn't threaten the leaders.

"He got bumped around pretty good at the start which may have taken something out of

him," Clay Whitham said. "He did make his normal move around the second turn but wasn't
able to sustain it. It's a tough race to win. We are proud of McCraken's effort and the great
jobs that Ian and Brian did to get him to that point. They both put in a lot of extra time and
effort in getting him ready for this race."

In Louisville on Sunday, Wilkes told reporters that McCraken came out of the race with a
small cut on his left hind leg, but otherwise was fine.

"He made a nice little run and I got a little excited but then he flattened out the last little

bit," Wilkes said of McCraken. "I don't like to make excuses. It was Always Dreaming's day
and all of us had to run over the same track."

Going into the Derby, McCraken had won four of his five career starts and had $410,848 in
earnings. Whitham Racing includes partners Janis Whitham, 85, of Leoti, Kansas, plus her
five children — including Coloradans Clay and Barth, president and CEO of Enduring
Resources in Denver.

This was the first Triple Crown race for a Whitham horse, but Janis and her husband,
Frank, owned Bayakoa, two-time winner of the Breeders' Cup Distaff in 1989 and '90. After

Frank's death in a 1993 private plane crash, Janis owned Fort Larned, winner of the 2012
Breeders Cup Classic, before her five children officially became partners in Whitham
Thoroughbreds in 2014. The family's early racing days in the 1960s and '70s involved
quarter horses, then thoroughbreds at Centennial Race Track in Littleton.