BREEDERS CUP Wilko slow in winning Juvenile

No Breeders' club Juvenile winner has ever won the Kentucky Derby.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) -- No Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner has ever won the Kentucky Derby the following year. And the eight colts who ran in the race might not even make it to the first Saturday in May.
Wilko, a 28-1 shot who came from England to win the Juvenile over mostly American horses Saturday, has been transferred to California-based trainer Craig Dollase.
The colt will be pointed to the Derby, even though his winning time of 1:42.09 over 1 1-16 miles was slower than Sweet Catomine, who won the Juvenile Fillies in 1:41.65 at the same distance.
"The colts don't look as strong at this point but they'll come around," trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Sunday. "There'll be some good ones that come around. That wasn't necessarily your Derby field. Not by a long shot."
Favorites disappoint
Lukas, Bob Baffert and Nick Zito were disappointed by their colts.
Sun King, trained by Zito, was third; Lukas' Consolidator was fourth; and Baffert's Roman Ruler, the wagering favorite, was fifth.
Zito has returned Sun King to Kentucky for treatment of a shin problem.
"We threw a gutterball, but we'll just reload and try again," Baffert said, adding that Roman Ruler likely won't run again until February.
Lukas plans to return Consolidator to California for some time off before going back to racing in January.
"Surprisingly, he ran huge for where he was at," the Hall of Fame trainer said. "I thought he ran a heck of a race."
Filly may be threat
Whether Sweet Catomine eventually takes on the boys in the 1 1/4-mile Kentucky Derby is up in the air. Owner Martin Wygod is keeping an open mind.
"They have to be able to go the classic distances and they have to be able to carry the high weights, unless something is a true champion, you don't want to risk going against the colts," Wygod said.
Sweet Catomine clinched the 2-year-old female championship by overcoming traffic problems on the turn for home and posting a 3 3/4-length win over Balletto.
"Right now, she's shown everybody the kind of brilliance she has over the last two races. To get stopped the way she did and come on so easily and put in the second run, it was brilliance," Wygod said.
Doesn't like running fillies
Zito doesn't like running fillies against male horses.
"To me, there's enough glory in winning the Kentucky Oaks," he said, referring to the Derby eve race for fillies at Churchill Downs.
Lukas shouted out a suggestion to Wygod on Sunday: "Marty, stay in the Oaks."
The trainer has successfully run fillies against colts in the past, most notably Winning Colors' Derby triumph.
"She may or may not have the constitution to train for it," he said. "Marty is a little bit conservative. He may have taken a soft route to get this far, but if they gave a trophy for performance of the day, that was it."