War of Will, who crossed the line eighth in the Kentucky Derby after his incident with Maximum Security, and was elevated to seventh with the disqualification of the latter, was in good order at trainer Mark Casse's barn this morning. The colt emerged with only one superficial nick on his right front leg. He's now considered likely to head on to the Preakness Stakes in two weeks.

"He's jumping up and down, it's like he didn't do anything [yesterday]," Casse said. "I think he probably will [go to the Preakness]. I wouldn't doubt you'll have the biggest Preakness field you've had in awhile, because of all ther stuff that happened, and because of the [sloppy] racetrack. ... I'm sure there's gonna be lots of people wanting another chance."

Here's what else Casse had to say the morning after.

On watching the incident in the race:
"I said a very bad word at that quarter pole. I see him moving, and I looked up, and I said a bad word ... and I looked, and there's a camera right in front of me."

On why jockey Tyler Gaffalione didn't claim foul, and how he feels about riders having to claim foul in general:
"When Tyler came back, he said he clipped heels. He said how he didn't go down, he didn't know. And we talked for a second about [claiming foul]. But we didn't feel - what, so we could be sixth? I don't think riders should have to claim foul. I think it's up to the stewards to make those decisions. [Jockeys], you want them to work every day beside each other and get along. Do you think [if I'm a rider], I'm gonna take the biggest race of [another rider's] life away? So I can be sixth? They shouldn't put the riders in that predicament. These are their friends. They ride with them every day."
"I would say if there was any mistake yesterday - and I have to say, I have the highest respect for the stewards - it was the inquiry sign should have gone up as soon as they passed the wire. ... I was actually kind of surprised it wasn’t up.”

On the disqualification:
"I feel sorry for the Wests. I feel sorry for Gary Barber, because our horse was ranging up. He may have beat us, but it was gonna be a race. I feel sorry for Luis Saez. I feel sorry for Jason Servis. I feel sorry for Bill Mott, because that's not the way he wanted to win the Kentucky Derby. But should the horse have come down? Absolutely."

On avoiding disaster:
"I don't feel sorry for Mark Casse, because I have War of Will this morning."
"He's just such an athlete. Horse racing should be happy that was War of Will put in that situation, because he he goes down, I think it would have been the biggest disaster. It's not like it's a six-horse field with four horses behind him. There were 18 behind him. It would have been ... "