EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS MINOR PROFANITY IN SHOTLIST LINE #5 VIDEO SHOWS: SOUNDBITES FROM COUNTRY HOUSE TRAINER BILL MOTT AND JOCKEY FLAVIEN PRAT AFTER WINNING KENTUCKY DERBY SHOWS: LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES (MAY 4, 2019)(CHURCHILL DOWNS - Broadcasters and Digital: NO RESALES) 1.

INTERIOR CHURCHILL DOWNS - COUNTRY HOUSE TRAINER BILL MOTT AT POST RACE NEWS CONFERENCE AFTER HIS HORSE WON KENTUCKY DERBY 2.

(SOUNDBITE)(English) COUNTRY HOUSE TRAINER BILL MOTT SAYING: "You know as far as the win goes, it's actually very, it's bittersweet, I'd be lying if I said it was any different.

I mean I'd like, you know you always want to win with a clean trip and have everybody recognize the horse as the very good horse and the great athlete that he is, I think that due to the disqualification I think probably some of that is diminished." 3.

COUNTRY HOUSE JOCKEY FLAVIEN PRAT AT POST RACE NEWS CONFERENCE AFTER WINNING DERBY 4.

(SOUNDBITE)(English) COUNTRY HOUSE JOCKEY FLAVIEN PRAT SAYING: "Well it feels pretty good actually, no it's a great moment, I mean it's a dream come true.

Coming from Europe (France), Breeders Cup was a bigger deal for me but as soon as I rode the first year here, I was in the grandstand and I watched each race and it's amazing, I mean there's no race like the Kentucky Derby and I always was hoping to one day ride it, ride the Derby and to win it and well it's done today so I'm really happy and blessed." 5.

(SOUNDBITE)(English) COUNTRY HOUSE TRAINER BILL MOTT SAYING: "I know the stewards had a very, very difficult decision, I mean I'm glad I wasn't in their shoes, I'm glad I didn't have to make the decision in front of over 100,000 people and the millions of people that are watching this on TV and around the world but, you know, with that being said, I'm damn glad they put our number up." STORY: Country House was declared the winner of the 145th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday (May 4) when Maximum Security became the first horse in the history of the race to be disqualified after crossing the line first.

Country House's team raised an objection to Maximum Security's win, saying the 9-2 favourite's wide turn heading into the stretch impeded other horses on the sloppy track in rainy Louisville.

After a review, officials found Maximum Security was guilty of a contact foul and awarded the win to the William Mott-trained Country House.

Code of Honor was bumped up to second and Tacitus third.

"No words can describe this.

It's amazing," Country House jockey Favien Prat said after learning he had won his first Kentucky Derby.

"I really lost my momentum around the turn," he said of Maximum Security's foul, which came when the colt veered from the rail just as several horses were gaining ground on the leader.

The result spelled heartbreak for Maximum Security trainer Jason Servis and jockey Luis Saez, who thought they had won their first Derby before a 20-minute video review changed the outcome.

Servis and Maximum Security owner Gary West told Sports Illustrated they planned to purse any available appeals to protest the disqualification.

The field was one of the most wide open in years after favourite Omaha Beach was scratched on Friday due to a breathing problem but few expected 65-1 Country House to take the prize and become the second-biggest outsider to ever win the race.

Donerail, at 91-1 in 1913, was the biggest longshot to win the Derby.

Coming into Saturday's race, Country House had only notched one win in six starts.

"It feels pretty darn good," veteran trainer Mott said of his first career Derby win.

"It was an odd way to do it and we hate to back into any of these things.

It's a bittersweet victory but I've got to say our horse ran very well and our jockey rode very well." Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, who had a trio of horses in the race, had looked to secure a record-tying sixth Derby victory but it was not to be as Improbable came in fourth, Game Winner fifth and Roadster 15th.

The 1-1/4 mile race, called the "fastest two minutes in sports," featured the largest guaranteed purse of $3 million and played out before more than 150,000 fans that packed the grandstands and infield of Churchill Downs despite the wet weather.

Saturday's race came at a time when the sport has come under scrutiny following the death of 23 horses at the famed Santa Anita track in Southern California since Christmas.

The spate of fatalities has prompted an investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office and led to protests by animal rights activists at the track, which is scheduled to host the Breeders' Cup in November.

(Production: David Grip)