I will be very interesing to see if Declan can duplicate his sprint figures as he stretches out. I think this distance should be well within his range. You could sort of think he should run faster because he won so easy last time and was not wound up 100% according to his trainer. We may get our first clue about how he will fair next year if he fails to duplicate those recent figures. The best case scenario is that he wins the race in what appears to be impressive fashion but the race comes up slower than expected. Then he might get the Eclipse Award and head into 2005 as a very overrated Derby contender for us to bet against.