If 5-2 favorite Tacitus had lost Saturday’s $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2), he might have pointed to some rough passing in the first going at Aqueduct. But the blueblood shrugged it off and won anyway, improving his chances of giving global powerhouse Juddmonte Farms and Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott a first Kentucky Derby (G1) trophy. The boy of Tapit and champion Close Hatches was jeopardized repeatedly at the opening quarter-mile, since the official chart comments describe:”bumped soundly in the […]