Risen Star knocks off Forty Niner

Add Risen Star to the list of Kentucky Derby contenders.

"We are going straight to Louisville," co-owner and trainerLouie J. Roussel III said after his colt upset Derby favorite FortyNiner by a head in the $105,600 Lexington Stakes before a recordcrowd of 28,772 Saturday at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.

Forty Niner, the Claiborne Farm colt trained by Woody Stephens,carried high weight of 121 pounds in the field of five Derby hopefulsover 1 1/16 miles in the Grade II race.

Risen Star stayed about four lengths off the pace until thethree-sixteenths pole, when jockey Jacinto Vasquez took him to thefront on the outside with Forty Niner on the inside. Risen …