05-03-2008, 09:46 PM
I find it difficult to get interested in the Derby because there is no campaign leading up to it anymore. It used to be the horses would run some preps as two year olds and then run in the Wood Memorial and some other races leading up to the Kentucky Derby. A casual fan had a chance to get interested in a couple of runners. Now the horses run one or two races, they don't run against each other, and so many horses enter that the Derby is a big cavalry chase. The winner is determined by luck at the start more often than not.