As thousands of visitors from around the continent and the world descend on Kentucky for Keeneland's September yearling sale and October race meeting and the November Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs, they may smell the odor of scapegoat emanating from the office of chief racing steward John Veitch....

It is not about running a filly in the Derby, it is about running the right kind of filly....

Todd Pletcher has been one of racing's leading trainers the past decade, though the sport's biggest prize, the Derby, has eluded him. This could be his year....