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Wonderboy wins Breeders' Cup Juvenile 10/29/2005 3:12:13 PM NEW YORK (AP-CP) - Stevie Wonderboy put television impresario Merv Griffin on the road to the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.   Storming into the lead down the stretch, Stevie Wonderboy blew past favorite First Samurai and Henny Hughes and won the $1.6-million US Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Belmont Park on Saturday. The win stamped the two-year-old colt named after singer Stevie Wonder as the early favourite for the Derby next May, and gave the 15-time Emmy Award winning Griffin his biggest win in racing. Griffin, 80, has owned horses for more than 10 years, with Skipaslew perhaps the best of the bunch until Stevie Wonderboy came along. First Samurai entered the Juvenile with a perfect 4-for-4 record, but was no match in the stretch for the powerful finish by Stevie Wonderboy, ridden by rejuvenated rider Garrett Gomez. Stevie Wonderboy has now won four of five starts and likely wrapped up the Eclipse Award as two-year-old male champion. But when it comes to the Derby, there's still a jinx to be broken: No Juvenile winner has won the Derby the following year since the Breeders' Cup began in 1984. An exuberant Griffin predicted his colt would end the jinx. Gomez kept Stevie Wonderboy just off the pace set by Dawn of War and Henny Hughes. Private Vow was running third, but it appeared a rein snapped on the back stretch and jockey John Velazquez was able to guide the colt out of trouble and out of contention. When the field turned for home, Gomez gathered Stevie Wonderboy for a final push, and the son of Stephen Got Even beat Henny Hughes by 1¼ lengths, with First Samurai third. Brother Derek, owned by Calgary's Cecil Peacock, was fourth. The horse came into the race with just three career starts (two wins, one third-place finish) and $167,100 in earnings. Jealous Profit, co-owned by J. Paul Reddam of Windsor, Ont., finished 11th. Reddam has one win in the Breeders' Cup, with Wilko in last year's Juvenile.