Thoughts of this years Derby Crop

[philcski]

Originally Posted by smartyalex

I know we have touched on this in other threads earlier in the year. However, I see much more promise than I had in this crop. I am seeing plenty of fast and consistent depth that should make for another good Triple Crown run......Your thoughts?

I don't see any real "brilliant" runners (yet) but a nice deep field. Any one of 25 runners is in with a chance at this point. Whether that's the case in 6 weeks remains to be seen but I like the chances. There will be a lot less "no-hope" entrants as most years.

I think the real trivia question is how many Pletcher ends up with in the gate. I'm going with 5...