The Post’s Steve Serby chatted this past week with the jockey of 50-1 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo:

Q: What has this week been like for you?

A: It’s been crazy. I’m not complaining.

Q: What was it like reading The Top 10 list on Letterman?

A: That was neat. I really enjoyed that.

Q: CNN in the morning, ESPN, Jim Rome, Mike and the Mad Dog … did you do Regis and Kelly?

A: No, I haven’t. I’d like to.

Q: The one horse you fear in the Preakness?

A: Afleet Alex. He’s so consistent. He’s such a tough horse.

Q: Your biggest single disappointment was finishing 12th in the 1994 Derby with Holy Bull … what made that horse so special?

A: I don’t know if you remember the following he had. I still to this day get letters about him. His charisma, the way he acted – he knew he was all that and more. He had such class. He would dominate races.

Q: How is his son, Giacomo, different?

A: He’s a little more laid-back. Holy Bull was a lot more aggressive.

Q: What was going through your mind in the starting gate at the Derby?

A: Just having a clean break. Step by step. I don’t want to overthink myself.

Q: How did you celebrate winning your first Derby?

A: Me and (ex-Jet linebacker) Bryan Cox, we hung out and just talked about it over and over again.

Q: And when you woke up Sunday morning?

A: I woke up: ‘Man, I think I dreamt I won the Derby! You know what? I really won the Derby!’

Q: You visited with Giacomo the morning after the Derby.

A: We had a long talk. I was there from seven in the morning ’til six at night. I didn’t leave his side.

Q: What did you tell him?

A: How much I appreciated what he did for me.

Q: Did he tell you how much he appreciated what you did for him?

A: He bit me once (laughs). I was giving him a massage. He’s a happy horse right now. It didn’t seem to take anything out of him.

Q: You think he has a shot in the Preakness?

A: I know he’s got a shot.

Q: Can winning a race like that do wonders for his confidence?

A: Oh, yeah, winning a race does wonders for a horse. They know when they get beat.

Q: Toughest horse you ever faced?

A: Cigar was a tough sonovagun. I couldn’t ever get by him. I made several runs at him.

Q: Pre-race meal?

A: I ride horses for a living; we don’t have many meals, period (laughs). You can’t eat much before you ride.

Q: How difficult, at age 39, is it to stay at 114 pounds?

A: It gets harder as you get older. I stay very active.

Q: What foods do you avoid?

A: Honestly, I don’t avoid any foods. I just eat small portions. I’ll have eight, nine, 10 bites. I don’t finish the meal. I’ll have two bites of dessert.

Q: Favorite racetracks?

A: Saratoga and Keeneland.

Q: Saratoga was where you broke your back following a spill and spent four months in a body cast.

A: I kinda went through depression, missing the sport and hurting so bad, not being able to do what I do.

Q: Why did you move from New York to California?

A: It was time to make a change. Sometimes change is good.

Q: Why was it time to make a change?

A: I wanted to go somewhere where I needed to prove myself. Coming back, not doing so good, you get a little discouraged.

Q: You wanted to rediscover your hunger?

A: Definitely.

Q: One of your other disappointments was being taken off Vindication in 2003 by Bob Baffert in favor of Jerry Bailey.

A: It kinda hurt. I did my job; there was no one that was gonna get any more out of him than I did. I never did nothing wrong. It was frustrating. Maybe Bob wasn’t having any luck with me at the time. I have no hard feelings. I thank him for the opportunity.

Q: Which jockey did you idolize as a boy?

A: When I was growing up it was Pat Day. When I moved to New York, I idolized Angel (Cordero).

Q: If you weren’t a jockey, what would you have been?

A: I was never gonna be anything else … A trainer, probably.

Q: How is the Belmont crowd different?

A: Belmont’s humongous. You don’t get a chance to get as close to the people as you would like. New York always has great fans.

Q: You’ve ridden for George Steinbrenner.

A: I’ve met him but I’ve never gotten a chance to really talk to him. He was good with me.

Q: Shug McGaughey?

A: My man. He’s one of the greatest of all time.

Q: How did you become friends with Bryan Cox?

A: When he played for Miami, I was riding at Gulfstream and he loves racing.

Q: You know Rick Pitino?

A: I rode a horse for him. It was when he first got in the game … We hung out several times. Great guy, man.

Q: Favorite movie?

A: Anything with (my buddy) Joe Pesci in it.

Q: What did you think of the movie “Seabiscuit?”

A: I loved it. My buddy Gary Stevens was George Woolf.

Q: Why did they pick him?

A: Just look at him, man. He looks like an actor.

Q: Would acting appeal to you?

A: Oh yeah, definitely!

Q: Favorite actress?

A: Charlize Theron.

Q: Favorite singer?

A: Elvis Presley.

Q: Favorite book?

A: The Bible.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: Italian food.

Q: Best piece of advice your father gave you?

A: Don’t ever change. Be who you are.

Q: One person in history you’d like to meet and why?

A: Michael Jordan. I admire him not only because of his talent but the way he played the game, the way he went after it, his hunger for it.

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: The president, the Pope and Elvis Presley (laughs).

Q: Three wishes?

A: Triple Crown. One’s come true so I got two left.