anything can happen, especially this year but his sire was a sprinter. Only grades stakes the sire won were sprinting

we have seen "slow" horses win the Derby but we haven't seen a horse that wasn't bred to get the distance win the race in a long time unless the horse absolutely towered over the field figure wise heading into the race (Big Brown and Smarty)

So, you either need completely dominant figures (which no one has this year) or you need to be bred to get the distance

Since only 2 horses this year really have any combination of being relatively fast and breeding for the distance, I think it's a two horse race

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If you want to throw Ride on Curlin and Cairo Prince in there as horses that have run ok figures and are bred for the 1 1/4, I wouldn't arent too much but Ride on Curlin seems like more of a candidate underneath and Cairo Prince's last race certainly didn't suggest that he wanted to go any further than 1 1/8 let alone 1 1/4. And I don't buy that CP was "short" for the last race. Kirian is a great horsemen, he doesn't run short horses in big races

Obviously CC has been impressive but he's not faster than the others and he's not bred for the distance so he's tough for me to play

Don't let me talk you off of Danza if you like him because I am wrong all the time about this stuff but you won't get me betting that a sprinter will sire a derby winner