The Fountain of Youth stakes at Gulfstream park had a huge impact on the derby picture. Horses that were looking good before the race performed poorly, and a couple of surprises ran well.

This ones for Phil and Capt. Candyman Can were highly rated contenders coming in, each having won and placed in multiple graded stakes races. Neither lived up to expectations, running 5th and 4th respectively, and have both been dropped from the top 20 and are now considered off the derby trail.

At the same time, Old Fashioned, who won the race easily, has gone from being unranked to being 4th. As in most other sports, beating one of the top 10 and some other highly regarded horses will put you up there. Also interesting is the 2nd place horse, Theregoesjojo is also now ranked. He actually bear Old Fashioned in an allowance race earlier.

So what does it all mean? First of all, there is still a long ways to go and anything can happen. Second, it means that me favoring a horse is the kiss of death(I would have picked Capt. Candyman Can). Third, I dont have a third!