Thanks for your thoughts MJ.

A few comments and questions for the board.

I also thought of the Improbable comparison to Collected, a City Zip that got the 1 1/4 miles for Baffert. But what do you make of the Blinkers On and Blinkers Off games being played in Ark Derby and now Ky Derby with Improbable?

On the War of Will and Omaha Beach front (pun intended), does War Front sway you one way or another for his progeny winning at 1 1/4 miles? Average winning distance is 7.42f. (Tapit 7.62f, Candy Ride 7.08f, Lookin at Lucky 7.49f Goldencents 6.34f for comparison's sake for other sires with horses in the race). Interestingly, despite the War Front Green New Stallion belief, Beach and War of Will a combined zero for 7 on the green and 6 for 8 on dirt.

Mott horses always tend to have that grinding style it seems: see Hofburg, Drosselmeyer, and now Tacitus/Country House. I've thought about this idea during these Derby preps. Wondering why his training style lends itself to this type of dirt performances in his 3yo's.

Hoping Max Security folds? Not knocking anyone's opinion one way or the other here as it is one of the puzzles to solve. But absolutely zero mention of Code of Honor anywhere it seems who:
Gets JohnnyV (rode Spinoff and Cutting Humor);
Will get more pace than he did in FlaDerby, maybe a fast pace according to some,
a good pattern (albeit with bo),
A Derby winning trainer;

And yet no love at all to even get a piece? Just seems if you are against Max Security, you should like this one. If you are on Max Security, then I understand not using this one. Starting to believe CoH's price will be much higher than many originally anticipated.