Fierceness faces a manly choice today — to make the effort to bring his best form to the track and to us, or to let it all slide. Here, the likely race scenarios.
Race day at the 150th Kentucky Derby is in the old, fundamental ways not unlike the previous 149: Jitters in the stands and in the paddock, the attempts at some quiet race-readying, some sweat, a lot of hope. All sets of connections will be hoping most mightily for their horse to present his best self to the track and the populace this afternoon. None of them doing that will be more fervent in that hope than the connections surrounding Fierceness, easily the most talented horse of the twenty in today’s field, and one of the most unpredictable.
We have been grappling for weeks with the fact that it is a largely slow field for the Derby, with some few exceptions, namely, those sought out last weekend by the Churchill oddsmakers as the top favorites.
