The story behind this year's Kentucky Derby Winner is similar, with its shades of a hero story, to the winning saga of Secretariat.

Flash back to 2008: She ran so poorly in her first three races that she was dropped into the lowest rung at Golden Gate Fields, a track outside of San Francisco.

Nonetheless, two owners, who were so clueless about horse racing that they called their partnership "Dumb Ass Partners," bought the mare for $8,000. What was more unbelievable was their decision to breed the undersized and underperforming horse.

The Dumb Ass partners are celebrating their dumb luck, after hiring a horse jockey from Mexico that learned to ride on donkeys, and using a 77-year-old trainer with a hard luck story of his own, who is now the oldest ever to win the Derby.

(READ the story in the Bleacher Report)