The Fountain of Youth (gr. II) was ugly in that you had the first-place finisher, Corinthian, lose his cool going to the gate and again in the gate, and then turn the stretch run into a roller derby jam. You had First Samurai losing the lead turning for home after setting tedious fractions of :48 1/5 and 1:12 1/5 over a fast, watered-down track. And you had five horses within 1 3/4 lengths of each other at the finish. The speed gurus no doubt will rip this race apart, especially considering the final time of 1:49 was four-fifths slower than an allowance race earlier on the card won by Sunriver. In fact, both the Fountain of Youth and the Swale Stakes (gr. II) were run slower than earlier allowance races, which could indicate that the track got slower and drier as the day went on.