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Article: SUNDAY SILENCE SEIZES THE DERBY EASY GOER FINISHES 2D

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May 7, 1989
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Charlie Whittingham was right.

Sunday Silence and rider Pat Valenzuela made the 76-year-old trainer look like a prophet as the colt captured the 115th running of the Kentucky Derby by 2 1/2 lengths over odds-on favorite Easy Goer, with Awe Inspiring, Easy Goer's stablemate, a head farther back in third.

All week long, the trainer of Sunday Silence insisted his West Coast champion deserved equal billing with Easy Goer, the East Coast champion who has been billed as a super horse. Now Sunday Silence gets top billing.

The gods smiled on Whittingham. Sunday Silence needed a muddy track and a bad trip for Easy Goer and Pat Day to turn the tables, and he got both. The ...

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