LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Even if the Mike Repole entry of Uncle Mo and Stay Thirsty finishes up the track in the Kentucky Derby (for a total cost of $100,000 to enter and start both colts), it won’t be a total waste.

They are being sponsored in the race by Repole’s all-natural snack company, Pirate Brands, and their jockeys — John Velazquez on Mo, Ramon Dominguez on Thirsty — will display the Pirate’s Booty logo on their white pants.

“Uncle Mo and Stay Thirsty were my Derby exacta,” Repole said. “But now with Pirate’s Booty onboard as the sponsor for both horses, we have the perfect trifecta.”

With a spiel like that, it’s no wonder Repole, the founder of Vitaminwater, was able to sell the company to Coca-Cola for $4.2 billion.

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Nancy Alberts
, one of 13 women to saddle a horse in the Preakness, passed away Tuesday at age 65 after suffering a stroke.

Alberts was the trainer, owner, breeder and exercise rider for 2002 Preakness runner-up Magic Weisner, ridden by Rich Migliore
. The Maryland-bred gelding finished three-quarters of a length behind Derby winner War Emblem at 45-1.

After the Triple Crown, Magic Weisner won the Ohio Derby and was second in the Haskell, but then contracted West Nile virus and ran just one more time.

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Multiple Grade 1 winning filly Devil May Care, who finished 10th in last year’s Kentucky Derby, was euthanized yesterday after being diagnosed with lymphosarcoma cancer by doctors at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington. Devil May Care won five of nine starts and earned $724,000 for Glencrest farm. She was trained by Todd Pletcher
.