Of the Team TAP runners, I might like CQ best based on his prior runs at CD,
including his 2YO finale where he had a rough trip and put up a decent TG #.

Miff has hinted that the 2 Pletcher absentees, CQ and SD, are not 100%
physically. Every time I read this I think about Pleasant Colony, who won 4
Grade 1s as a 3YO in 1981, and was not an overly sound specimen. I
will observe with interest how far and how fast the Pletcher "absentees"
work leading up to the Derby.

The whole idea of Pletcher having four entrants, two of which
might have physical issues, brings up once again the notion of having a Derby
AE or alternate list. What is to stop a trainer such as TAP from scratching
2 runners the morning of the Derby, thereby making for a shorter field and
excluding 2 runners who may have been physically ready for the race?

As I have said previously, I am studying much more diligently to try to figure
a scenario where Pletcher's big favorite in the Oaks, Rags to Riches (fastest
in the field and a 1/2 to Jazil to boot) can be defeated. Drug O'Needle's
Mistical Plan looks interesting if you throw out her Poly races, but upon
reviewing the video of her FG Oaks win she seemed to be post and pace aided.