LOUISVILLE, Ky. - I’ll Have Another didn’t seem to have the goods to win the Kentucky Derby.

Sold as a yearling for a paltry $11,000, ridden by a rookie jockey hardly anyone knew, and stuck in an outside post no horse had ever won from - not exactly a blueprint for success at Churchill Downs.

But with the finish line in sight, the chestnut colt overtook highly regarded Bodemeister in the final furlong Saturday to make a name for himself and rider Mario Gutierrez.

I’ll Have Another stormed out of post No. 19 - the first winner from there in 138 runnings of the Derby - and bided his time in the middle of the pack while Bodemeister set a blistering pace on a hot, muggy afternoon.

“He’s an amazing horse,’’ said Gutierrez. “I kept telling everybody, from the first time I met him, I knew he was the one. I knew he was good.

“I said in an interview, even if they allowed me to pick from the whole rest of the field, I would have stayed with him, 100 percent, no doubt about it.’’

Gutierrez, making his Derby debut at 25, got his chance to ride I’ll Have Another after trainer Doug O’Neill and owner J. Paul Reddam just happened to see him win a race at Santa Anita.

It was another chapter in his unusual route to the Derby winner’s circle. He followed in his father’s footsteps as a jockey, getting on quarter-horses in Veracruz, Mexico, at 14. After a stint in Canada, he eventually started getting noticed on the West Coast, especially after winning the Santa Anita Derby.

Still, he was largely a mystery to the record crowd of 165,307, who didn’t know 15-1 shot I’ll Have Another or the jockey had the right stuff until the 20-horse field turned for home. That’s when Gutierrez, who moved up between horses around the final turn, positioned his colt not far from the rail and set him down to run.