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Current Odds: 30-1 Bwana Charlie--Maggies Storm, by Stormy Atlantic

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Peter Miller

Trainer

His interest in horses started at a young age when his parents would take him to the racetrack to watch their horses run.Peter wanted to be a jockey so at age 10 he went to a jockey school in Castaic, California for one year.When it was obvious he would grow to tall to pursue his dream of being a jockey, so he started to work as a groom on the backside during high school.After graduation, he worked full-time as a groom for the late Hall of Fame trainer Charlie Wittingham.Peter Miller has also worked for trainers Mike Mitchell and Don Wareen.

Patrick Valenzuela

Jockey

Valenzuela burst on to the racing scene when he became the youngest jockey to win the Santa Anita Derby when he piloted Codex to win at age 17. In 1989, he guided Sunday Silence to victory in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes but came up just short of winning the illusive Triple Crown. Valenzuela has won seven Breeders’ Cup races and has ridden such outstanding horses like Arazi, Best Pal, and Lava Man.

Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Kevin Tsujihara

Owner

Three Hollywood movie makers own Kentucky Derby 137 contender Comma to the Top who has swept the $750,000 Cash Call Futurity (GI), Generous Stakes, and Real Quiet Stakes during Hollywood Park’s Fall Meet.Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum are co-founders of Spyglass Entertainment, the company has produced motion pictures like Seabiscuit, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Inisder, and The Sixth Sense.

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Pedigree

Comma to the Top was bred in Florida by Richard and Linda Thompson

He is from the second crop of sprinter Bwana Charlie and is bred for speed on both sides of his pedigree Bwana Charlie is by the versatile Indian Charlie, who is also the sire of early Derby favorite Uncle Mo; Indian Charlie has been represented by some nice route runners, including champion Fleet Indian and Grade 1 winner Pampered Princess, but he’s better known for passing his brilliant speed to offspring, including champion female sprinter Indian Blessing and multiple Grade 3 winner Conveyance, who faded to 15th after setting the pace in the 2010 Kentucky Derby

Bwana Charlie never tried longer distances, making all 19 career starts at a mile or less, and compiled wins in Amsterdam (G3) and Lafayette (G3) at three and placed in the one-mile Derby Trial (G3)

Comma to the Top is the second foal to race out of the Stormy Atlantic mare Maggie’s Storm, and both his dam and half-sibling were winless in multiple starts; Maggie’s Storm is out of Maggie’s Pistol, who won the seven-furlong Virginia H. (G3) and made all 28 career starts at a mile or less; this is also the female family of Grade 3 vixen and Grade 1-placed Good Potential, who was at her best going one turn

Broodmare sire Stormy Atlantic is by leading sire Storm Cat, an excellent source of both speed and stamina, but the stakes winner never raced past six furlongs in 15 career starts; Stormy Atlantic has a limited number of runners as a broodmare sire, but his only other stakes winner is It’s Me Mom, who captured the six-furlong Presque Isle Downs Debutante in 2010 and opened her sophomore season with a fourth in the six-furlong Old Hat S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park

Comma to the Top excelled at distances up to 1 1/16 miles last year, posting a convincing 1 ¾-length win in the CashCall Futurity (G1), and he’ll need to continue to outrun his pedigree to thrive at the 1 ¼-mile Derby distance

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