I Want Revenge will be scratched from The Kentucky Derby. Thankfully, the trainers this year are being cautious and realize that one race, does not a career make. It is better to withdraw and be around another day, than to run in the slop against a calvary charge of horses, some green, and risk a good horse never being the same again. Too many horses came to the Derby in good form, only to never run the same again.

So thank you IEAH, Jeff Mullins for putting your horse first. No one wants a repeat of last year’s Derby, and perhaps, that is why so many horses were at Churchill Downs last week, but will not be in the starting gate today. Quality Road is battling quarter cracks, and Square Eddie is dealing with sore shins again.

The will live to race another day. And that makes a lot of sense, indeed.