ALWAYS Dreaming captured the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday and this improving three-year-old has a fair shot of becoming a Triple Crown winner given his rate of improvement this year. He was placed twice at two years and back in January landed his maiden success. He is now unbeaten in four starts in 2017 and they also include the Grade 1 Florida Derby, his first run in a stakes race.

The Kentucky-bred Always Dreaming was sold through Gerry Dilger’s Dromoland Farm by the Santa Rosa Partners for $350,000 as a yearling at the Keeneland September Sale. With earnings now of almost $2.3 million and a potential stud value of multiples of that amount, it has proven to be a dream investment by agent Steven Young on behalf of the extensive partnership who now own the three-year-old.