Mystik Dan (McPeek/B. Hernandez)
Catching Freedom (Cox/Prat)
Muth (Baffert/J. Hernandez)
Imagination (Baffert/Dettori)
Tuscan Gold (Brown/Gaffalione)
Uncle Heavy (Reid/Sanchez)
Seize the Grey (Lukas/J. Torres)
Just Steel (Lukas/Rosario)
Mugatu (Engler/Bravo)

Preakness field. Go figure. Went from internet claim of ‘worst Preakness ever’ to arguably more interesting than Derby.

Copper Tax won't enter Preakness..

Trying to figure the pace out here, Steve. First glance, it looks like Muth and Imagination set a moderate pace up front. But I think it could make sense for Lukas to have Seize the Grey up front and either try to wire them or possibly press the pace for the Baffert duo and set up Just Steel a bit. Which, if that happens, that will of course have the potential to also set up horses like Mystik Dan and Tuscan Gold and so on.

Muth scratched fever

Changes the race a bit.

Imagine if this happened two weeks ago. It would have been wild if Zedan won his suit to have Muth run in the Derby only for him to get a fever the night before and have to be scratched.

After Muth SCR, feels like..

Imagination/Seize the Gray

Mystik Dan/Tuscan Gold/Just Steel

Uncle Heavy/Mugatu/Catching Freedom

6/8: BELMONT STAKES, Saratoga, 10f

Mystik Dan/Thorpedo Anna (McPeek)
Sierra Leone/Tuscan Gold (Brown)
Fierceness/Mindframe/Protective (Pletcher)
Antiquarian (Pletcher)
Resilience (Mott/Albarado)
The Wine Steward (Maker)
Honor Marie (Beckman/Geroux)
Dornoch (Gargan)
Seize the Grey (Lukas)

Make it the Ohio Derby for Batten Down.. (Resilience now a Belmont possible though)..

6/8: BELMONT STAKES, Saratoga, 10f

Mystik Dan (McPeek/B. Hernandez)
Sierra Leone (Brown/Prat)
Mindframe (Pletcher/I. Ortiz)
Protective (Pletcher/Gaffalione)
Antiquarian (Pletcher/Velazquez)
Resilience (Mott/Albarado)
The Wine Steward (Maker/Franco)
Honor Marie (Beckman/Geroux)
Dornoch (Gargan/Saez)
Seize the Grey (Lukas/Torres)

Jim Dandy

1 Sierra Leone
2 Seize the Grey
3 Batten Down
4 Pony Express
5 Gould's Gold
6 Fierceness

Mindframe sidelined.. Fierceness to Travers..

Travers Field

Dornoch
Thorpedo Anna
Fierceness
Sierra Leone
Unmatched Wisdom
Corporate Power
Honor Marie
Batten Down