Byline: Matt Graves
Nick Zito has a talent, a rather special talent, it seems.
He has discovered the secret of winning the Kentucky Derby, the world's most famous and perhaps most important race in the world.
Zito hasn't reached the age of 50, and he's already done it twice. Jimmy Croll never won one, and neither did Hirsch Jacobs nor Allen Jerkens. And they're all in the Hall of Fame.
Zito has won the Derby twice in the span of four years. And he's only had a horse at Churchill Downs three times for the big race on the first Saturday in May. That's a .667 batting average in racing's most prized game.
It takes a lot of ingredients to add up to a Derby winner a horse who cango 1 1/4 miles early in his or her 3-year-old …
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