Byline: Tim Wilkin
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As evening fell on historic Churchill Downs, trainer Todd Pletcher fell, too. And boy, did he fall hard.
The best thoroughbred trainer in years had a Kentucky Derby that might've kept him up Saturday night, and for many nights to come.
Pletcher came to America's biggest horse race with five chances to win it for the first time. As dusk crept over the Twin Spires and the third-largest crowd ever to see the Derby (156,635) started to sober up, reality was setting in for Pletcher.
His futility in the Derby will be a story again next spring.
Pletcher, the three-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer and the king …
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