FWIW - Just A Touch seems to be yesterday's news. What if the Bluegrass early pace had been :47.2 rather than :46.2. I don't think it is beyond the Chadster to have set things up for his winner.

With a month for Cox to teach his colt some patience, he will complicate the race for one of the top two contenders. i.e. he may go with fierceness or if they dawdle up front Sierra Leone may not catch them all.

A die-hard pace perspective.