He put blinkers on him for his next start, and Dixieland Brass scored an easy four-length victory.

Having impressed with a four-length victory at St Cloud, and provided the ground is not too good, he could profit from a fast pace start by the 26-strong field.

Hero's Tribute, good enough to win twice in four outings as a 2-year-old, has started only once this year but was dazzling in a four-length victory at seven furlongs.

And it gained star quality today when Things Change shot to a four-length victory in the Spinaway, one of Saratoga's oldest and most important stakes for young horses.

Hero's Tribute, injured in the Iroquois Stakes on Breeders' Cup Day, enhanced his Derby possibilities with an impressive four-length victory.

He had a four-length victory over Observation Post.

Gone West relishes the sloppy going and posts a four-length victory over Java Gold and Gulch in the Jim Dandy Stakes.

Capades, one of the country's most accomplished 3-year-old grass fillies regardless of birthplace, scored an impressive four-length victory over the talented Sweet Blow Pop in the first division.

The virtually unchallenged four-length victory in 2:01.13 - ninth fastest in the history of the race - delivered Baffert his third Derby in six years.

Fittingly, Sky Beauty's four-length victory in her 1995 debut, the seven-furlong Vagrancy Handicap, came on the 90th anniversary of the big park.