LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A range of emotions rolled through the Churchill Downs stable area on Tuesday morning for trainers associated with this year's Kentucky Derby, from a dejected Doug O'Neill, who announced Square Eddie was injured anew, to the quiet confidence of Jeff Mullins after I Want Revenge turned in his final workout, to the joy of trainer Kelly Breen, who through a surprising confluence of events looked like he would have a second runner in the race.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Advice and Join in the Dance will join Dunkirk as starters in the Kentucky Derby for trainer Todd Pletcher, but Take the Points will not run, allowing Atomic Rain to get into the race.

Pletcher made his decision just before noon on Tuesday. He said Rene Douglas would ride Advice, and Join in the Dance would be ridden by Chris DeCarlo.

Atomic Rain, now 20th on the graded stakes earnings list, will be ridden by Joe Bravo, trainer Kelly Breen said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - With the weather forecast calling for heavy rain on Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs, trainer Jeff Mullins was rolling the dice just a bit delaying I Want Revenge's workout until after the renovation break at 8:30 a.m. And perhaps it was an omen of good things to come for I Want Revenge, the likely Derby favorite, that the wet weather held off long enough for him to complete his important drill just minutes before a deluge turned a fast track to slop for the remainder of Tuesday's training session.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. I Want Revenge, the likely favorite for the Kentucky Derby, worked a half-mile in 47.34 seconds at Churchill Downs on Tuesday morning with jockey Joe Talamo in his final tune-up for Saturday's race.

"I feel we accomplished what we wanted to," said Talamo. "The last two times he worked the track was deep and soggy."

The track was fast for Tuesday's work, but I Want Revenge just did beat the rain. It began pouring just as he left the track, about 8:45 a.m.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Square Eddie has re-aggravated a cannon bone injury and will not run in Saturday's 135th Kentucky Derby, trainer Doug O'Neill said early Tuesday morning.

"He's got heat in the shin," O'Neill said shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday. "We x-rayed it, and it looks good, but the heat is the first sign of some activity. He's going to be fine. He was hiccup-free until yesterday. That shin had been cold since early March. It's terrible timing."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The road to the Kentucky Derby is filled with potholes and dangerous curves, and on Monday, only five days before the 135th Derby at Churchill Downs, there were stark reminders, both here and at Belmont Park.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - That guy in a green jersey-style T-shirt and white visor pulling up to Barn 41 on a rusted low-end mountain bike late Monday morning - that guy was a groom, right? Hotwalker?

Guess again. That was trainer Derek Ryan. And for a man about to send out his first Kentucky Derby starter, Musket Man, Ryan is keeping things typically low-key at Churchill Downs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It took eight days in Kentucky to finally see a workout that would blow my socks off, a la Street Sense or Barbaro, in the weeks leading up to this year's Kentucky Derby. That work came Monday at Churchill Downs, but it was not turned in by a prospective Derby starter but by Rachel Alexandra, who will be the odds-on favorite to capture the 2009 Kentucky Oaks.

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Sunny, track fast, 71 degrees

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Friesan Fire and Pioneerof the Nile, two of the leading contenders for the 135th Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs, were among a slew of workers on Monday morning, along with Kentucky Oaks favorite Rachel Alexandra, whose drill was delayed by a gruesome accident involving two unraced runners.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Quality Road's bid to make Saturday's Kentucky Derby ended Monday morning when the colt's right front foot was simply too sore to allow him to train.

Quality Road had developed a quarter crack on his right front foot last Thursday, but his connections were hopeful the horse could still make the Derby. Quality Road needed to get a workout in Monday morning, but instead was relegated to standing in a tub of hot water and Epsom salts in an attempt to get the soreness out of the foot.