Horse Racing's video: 1989 Derby Trial Stakes : ABC Broadcast

It`s not a mythical championship voted on by the press,'' said D. Wayne Lukas. ''It`s a street fight on the racetrack. ''I think we`re in good shape.'' The ''street fight'' is next Saturday`s 115th Kentucky Derby. Lukas` words were spoken immediately after Houston, the colt he trains, prepared for the impending rumble by swaggering past five opponents in Saturday`s Derby Trial. This was the Houston who`d been invincible in the first three starts of his career before staggering across the finish line a distant fifth in the Santa Anita Derby on April 8. ''I expected him to run a good race, and he did,'' said Lukas, who won last year`s Kentucky Derby with Winning Colors. ''And now, we have the advantage of a race over the track. ''He was very relaxed off the pace-that`s a positive thing-and he never turned a hair in the paddock.'' If the Santa Anita battered Houston`s self-confidence, the Derby Trial was an ego trip. Racing far off the rail on a track that was labeled ''good'' following heavy rain during the night, he ran second for the opening half-mile of the one-mile race. On the far turn, he powered past pacesetting Pulverizing and swiftly gained complete control. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-04-30-8904090176-story.html