Affirmed staring Cause to Believe and..

Poiny Determined,

Cause to Believe will carry 119 pounds in the Affirmed, two pounds fewer than topweight Point Determined, who finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby and second in the Santa Anita Derby. A. P. Warrior, who won the San Felipe Stakes and was third in the Santa Anita Derby, will carry 120 pounds.

Other probable starters are Your Tent or Mine (119), Record (116), and Arson Squad (115). Blazing Sunset, who won the Alydar Stakes here May 14, will start instead in the $250,000 Iowa Derby at Prairie Meadows on June 30, trainer Doug O'Neill said. Neko Bay, the runner-up in the Alydar Stakes, is out of training for 60 days with an undisclosed injury, trainer John Shirreffs said.