Derby Watch ( Pelusa)

ear	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2001	Jungle Pocket	Koichi Tsunoda	Sakae Watanabe	Yomoji Saito	2:27.0
2002	Tanino Gimlet	Yutaka Take	Kunihide Matsuda	Yuzo Tanimizu	2:26.2
2003	Neo Universe	Mirco Demuro	Tsutomu Setoguchi	Shadai Racehorse Co.	2:28.5
2004	King Kamehameha	Katsumi Ando	Kunihide Matsuda	Makoto Kaneko	2:23.3
2005	Deep Impact	Yutaka Take	Yasuo Ikee	Makoto Kaneko	2:23.3
2006	Meisho Samson	Mamoru Ishibashi	Tsutomu Setoguchi	Yoshio Matsumoto	2:27.9
2007	Vodka	Hirofumi Shii	Katsuhiko Sumii	Yuzo Tanimizu	2:24.5
2008	Deep Sky	Hirofumi Shii	Mitsugu Kon	Toshio Fukami	2:26.7
2009	Logi Universe	Norihiro Yokoyama	Kiyoshi Hagawara	Masaaki Kumeta	2:33.7

Pelusa ran a 2:24.3 in the Aoba Sho on May 1st at the same distance as the Derby. On time alone, this would put him on par with Vodka( see above). It's difficult to match the same success as this effort but provided he races under the same circumstance on May 30th..who knows?