The 152nd Kentucky Derby just rewrote a sentence that had been sitting on the same page since 1875. On May 2, 2026, Cherie DeVaux became the first woman to train the winner of the Run for the Roses, and her horse Golden Tempo did it from dead last in an 18-horse field at 23-1 odds. The numbers are almost too neat to be real, but the replay confirms it. Two firsts in one race. A trainer ceiling that had survived 152 editions. A pace strategy that should not work in modern Derby trips. A horse that broke slowly, sat at the back, threaded through traffic, and caught the favorite Renegade by a neck. Final time 2:02.27, jockey Jose Ortiz on the throttle, Churchill Downs vibrating like a struck bell. The trainer who refused the trailblazer label DeVaux is 44. She was a pre-med student at SUNY-Albany before a summer job at a stable redirected the entire plan. She worked under Chuck Simon, then under Chad Brown, one of the most respected names in thoroughbred racing. She got her training license in 2018.…