The jinx is over.

Calvin Borel did what he does best, skim the rail, and Jim Tafel’s Street Sense won the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) Saturday, becoming the first Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) winner to return at 3 and win the Derby.

Hard Spun, whose jockey Mario Pino controlled the pace beautifully, held on for second and it was far back to the third-place finisher, Curlin.

It marked the first time since Sunny’s Halo in 1983 that a horse won the Derby with only two prep races at 3. But trainer Carl Nafzger, who won the 1990 Derby with Unbridled, was supremely confident in his handling of the son of Street Cry