Monday on the Derby Backstretch with Katie Petrunyak

The TDN's Katie Petrunyak will be on the Derby backstretch every morning this week to talk to the Oaks and Derby connections. Here, she talks to Trainer Tim Yakteen, who sends out Messier and Taiba in the Derby; Bill Mott, who saddles Nostalgic in the Oaks, and D. Wayne Lukas, whose Secret Oath is expected to be the Oaks favorite and whose Ethereal Road made it into the Derby field Monday.

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