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From Ocala.com

"Big Brown began his career in Ocala, when local pinhooker Eddie Woods plucked him out of a yearling sale in Keeneland, Ky. He took the horse back to his Ocala farm to break and train before selling him to Mark Roberts, who bought him for current owner Paul Pompa.

"It was phenomenal," Woods said after the race, adding he never dreamed the horse he bought for $60,000 during the last day of the sale would make it to the Derby.

"I have a good imagination, but it's not that good," he said from Louisville. "He has so much class. This is a turf horse doing remarkable things on the dirt."

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