DERBY TRIAL S. (gr. III ), Churchill Downs , April 27, 2013 , $175,000 Added , value of race $201,425 , 3 yo , 1 mile , 1:35.77 Dirt FT .

Making his first start at a middle distance, Perretti Racing Stable’s Forty Tales broke through by winning the one-mile Derby Trial Stakes (gr. III) on Churchill Downs’ opening program April 27. The win came with Joel Rosario aboard, who was fresh off breaking the spring meet mark at Keeneland with 38 wins during the 16-day meet.

Despite his charge’s picking up 20 points toward the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), trainer Todd Pletcher does not plan on running Forty Tales back on one week’s rest. Besides, Pletcher has as many as six other candidates for the May 4 Run for the Roses.

Bred in Kentucky by Randal Family Trust, the Derby Trial winner was consigned by Paramount Sales, agent, to the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale. Forty Tales was purchased by James J. Crupi’s New Castle Farm for $80,000. The colt was later consigned to a pair of juvenile sales: the Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale in March and the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale in May at Timonium, Md., but withdrawn from both auctions.

Robert David Randal purchased Forty Love in foal to Dixie Union, for $100,000 out of the 2002 Keeneland November breeding stock sale from the Lane’s End, agent, consignment.

Forty Love was bred in Kentucky by Cherry Valley Farm, a division of the Hancock family’s famed Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky. She is a daughter of Claiborne Farm stallion Forty Niner and the stakes-winning and stakes-producing Footy.

Footy is the granddam of Canadian grade II winner Masseuse and multiple stakes winner Buff and the great-granddam of Banned, Glen Hill Farm’s brilliant three-time graded stakes winner in 2011.

The Derby Trial winner is a son of Tale of the Cat, which adds to the legacy of Storm Cat, who was euthanized April 25 at his Overbrook Farm at 30 due to the infirmities of old age. Tale of the Cat was one of 110 graded/group winners for Storm Cat and one of many sons excelling at stud in North America.

Forty Love was bred in 2013 to Gio Ponti—Castleton Lyon’s three-time Eclipse Award-winning son of Tale of the Cat.

Tale of the Cat is the sire of 93 stakes winners, with six additional added-money winners in 2013. Tale of the Cat stands at Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky. His 2013 fee is $25,000.—E.H.

( ), Gulfstream Park , February 16, 2013 , $54,500 Added , value of race $54,500 , 3 yo , 1 1/16 miles , 1:48.16 Dirt SY .