What's Next?

With all three legs of the Triple Crown being won by different horses, it seems like the racing world will have to look past the three-year old division for a superstar. Luckily, in addition to Rachel and Zenyatta, there is another rivalry between older horses that could capture the racing worlds attention: Quality Road and I Want Revenge.

Like most people, I was pretty confident about I Want Revenge going into the Kentucky Derby. So after his ligament injury, I thought that this was another case of an immensely talented racehorse who would never fulfill his potential. Luckily, fate has smiled on the son of Stephen got Even and his new connection IEAH stables and he is in training once again in preparation for the Suburban Handicap at Belmont.

After recovering from the quarter-crack injury that sidelined him for the Kentucky Derby, Quality Road went to the Breeder's Cup Classic, was blinfolded much to his chagrin, forced into a starting gate and almost killed himself. Thankfully, someone who works the starting gates at Santa Anita is incredibly cool under pressure and handled the situation with minimal damage to the animal.

Now that we have the two talented thoroughbreds in training it's time to run them against one another before it is too late. I'd love to see both horses pointed to the Whitney along with Rachel Alexandra, then the Jockey Club Gold Cup and finally the Classic. Lets hope that us younger fans who didn't grow up during the age of Secretariat, Slew and Damascus get to witness a truly great season of racing full of intense rivalries.