If all goes as planned, North Barrington trainer Larry Rivelli will be saddling his first Kentucky Derby starter, Two Phil's, at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 6. According to Jerry Bailey -- the Hall of Fame jockey and superb NBC racing analyst -- the colt has 'a puncher's chance' in the 149th Run for the Roses.
He has every right to.
"We plan on being there and the horse belongs, so we've got a shot," Rivelli says."What more can you ask for?"by signing up you agree to our terms of service •••Grandfather Pete DiVito was a training mainstay on the Chicago-Florida circuit for close to 30 years before his retirement in 1989.
"After college, I was spending my mornings on the Arlington backstretch and later in the day selling cars at a friend's lot up in Crystal Lake," Rivelli said."I've never liked to be idle. I think part of me is OCD." In 1971, father Vince Foglia Sr. co-founded a medical tech company called Sage Products LLC. In 2016, the Michigan-based Stryker Corporation purchased the Cary firm for a reported $2.7 billion.
Most importantly regarding the 2023 Kentucky Derby, Patricia's Hope LLC owns 80 percent of Two Phil's.Though the 3-year-old has never run in Illinois, its Chicago roots go well beyond the Foglia ownership.Close to 10 years ago, an advertising executive named Phil Sagan of Bloomingdale wound up with a determined distaffer named Mia Torri. She won close to $315,000 during a 10-race career.Son Anthony Sagan is an accomplished poker player.
What he told Sagan and La Sala was that their mating answer was an overlooked stallion named Hard Spun. Leving projected an appropriate blend of stamina, tactical speed and that impossibly immeasurable X-factor called"heart." "I guess I am known for picking spots pretty carefully," Rivelli joked."Horse vans have never scared me, especially since my stepfather Vic drives a lot of the time."
Despite the fact the arc-altering victory of Two Phil's came on a synthetic surface , almost all credible national observers have the colt among the top six or seven picks for the Kentucky classic.
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