GOOD Derby or bad Derby this year? In truth, we don’t really know. Not yet. We don’t have sufficient evidence.

Perhaps the fact that we are only getting to know the three-year-old colts at this stage of the season lends itself to the perennial decrying of the quality of the Derby field. The Derby runners are not household names, not like the Derby winners of yesteryear. But the reality is that, these horses are still adolescents and, generally, they can’t really have done much more than they have already done.