Renegade delivered Mike Repole his best trip in the Kentucky Derby to date across more than two decades as a thoroughbred owner.
Unfortunately for the billionaire entrepreneur, it did not result in a trip to the winner’s circle with the morning-line favorite.
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The Todd Pletcher-trained Renegade and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. finished second — behind Golden Tempo — in Saturday’s Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs.
Repole is now 0 for 9 in the iconic first leg of the Triple Crown. Before Saturday, his best finish in the 1¼-mile race was fifth in 2022 with Mo Donegal, who came in roughly five lengths behind longshot winner Rich Strike after starting in Post 1.
If it’s any consolation, Renegade needed only to make it in the gate to one-up several of Repole’s past contenders who scratched: Grande (2025), Forte (2023) and Uncle Mo (2011).
Co-owners Robert and Lawana Low fell to
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