The Wood is one of four or five major preps and its hard to focus on that particular figure in my mind, given the disagreements and conjecture. Bottom line a Godolphin, who had had a tough winter in Florida, wins very solidly. Most years, this type is certainly single digits to win the Derby. Not this heat, twenty to one is plenty possible with a bad draw. If fast enough, in the past, you can't fault anyone on his bandwagon.

Upstart is pure racehorse who is not far from being undefeated and he lights it up on both the track and on the "Thorometer" every time. Lost on a floated surface in the Champagne to a freakish performance, got the worst of the draw on the left coast and always competes. A Ny bred, both grandfathers Belmont winners, but, he also had some missteps in Miami with a sinus infection and maybe antibiotics? Another that would ordinarily be single digit odds; yet twelve(ish) to one seems likely. Would guess many "TG"ers may land here.

At any rate, I'm not a sheet player expert but separating these two seems a dicey proposition; of course that may be the intent of the thread originator Mjellish? bbb