With a field as wide-open as this weekend's Lane's End , it's hard to feel quite as engaged as usual; it seems to be becoming less of a Derby prep and more of a showcase for Polytrack specialists. Halo Najib seems a deserving favorite, given his success on synthetics, but that makes a wager...

This past weekend's Derby preps weren't much help in terms of bandwagon-jumping; War Pass finally had a bad day and the relatively-unheralded (although previously a second place finisher to Denis of Cork ) California-bred Sierra Sunset took the Rebel . Georgie Boy , trained by Kathy Walsh, also...