One thing that is for sure, is that if I’ll Have Another does not get the respect he deserves going into the 2012 Belmont, should he win, taking the Triple Crown, he should go down as one of the most respected Triple Crown winners in the history of the series.

Is the 2012 crop of three-year-olds the best in several years? Laura Pugh thinks so...

The 2012 Kentucky Derby field takes shape more each day. This week Dead Heat Debates' Laura Pugh and Managing Editor Brian Zipse talk Bodemeister vs Dullahan - the top colts to come out of the Blue Grass and Arkansas Derby!

Derby Fever makes for fickle fans....Don't let Hansen's second place finish in the Blue Grass fool you or the commentators sway you. Hansen ran a much bigger race than he is getting credit for.

Time for us to realize that sending our top horses to Dubai to race on an unknown surface, thousands of miles away from their home, is no longer worth the money and prestige. Time for the connections of top horses to concentrate their efforts keeping their stars at their peak through a full and high class, American campaign.

The Florida Derby may have had a couple of uncharacteristically dull years, but in 2012 it looks to get back up on its feet, delivering one of, if not the best Kentucky Derby Preps this season.

Which Hansen will we see in Saturday's Gotham Stakes?

Freak is a term thrown around way to often in the sport of horse racing…..after Sunday’s Fountain of Youth, any doubts about a certain Michael Matz trainee and his “freak” status, should have been erased. Union Rags, only a head away from an unbeaten season, a champion season, made his return to the races and he did it with a vengeance.

Bob Baffert is loaded and coming after this year's Kentucky Derby with a vengeance.

Over the past few years one of the biggest angles a horseplayer uses in order to figure what horse could become a potential Derby horse, or even a top three-year-old, is to discount any obvious two year old stars. Is this angle legit or is it a myth?