Street Sense finished strongly in his final work before the Derby (Lauren Pomeroy/Horsephotos.com)

Champion STREET SENSE (Street Cry [Ire]), who could vie for favoritism in Saturday's 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby (G1), breezed five furlongs in 1:01 under regular rider Calvin Borel at Churchill Downs on Tuesday. The solo work, the fifth-fastest of 22 at the distance, was accomplished on a fast track before the renovation break.

Street Sense was timed in fractions of :13 3/5, :26, :38 and :49 4/5. Thus, the dark bay colt completed his final quarter-mile in :23 flat and his final furlong in :11 1/5. The colt galloped out six furlongs in 1:13.

Afterward, trainer Carl Nafzger was holding court to a throng of media types at his barn.

"I'll be disappointed Sunday if all of you are not here," Nafzger said with a laugh. "I hate withdrawal."

Nafzger was more than pleased with the move, which took place four days before the 1 1/4-mile classic.

"The work was good," Nafzger said. "Everybody saw it. He got his first quarter in :26 and picked it on up and galloped out. That's him. If we had slowed him down, we'd have gone too slow. He wanted to have fun and we let him. We'd have really messed him up if I had told Calvin 'now don't let him run down the lane.' He wants to do this. He loves to do what he is doing.

"He set the program," Nafzger continued. "He brought us here and we are going to go with him all the way. If he gets us there, he gets us there and that's horse racing. We only have 19 to beat, so it looks pretty easy now."

Tuesday's work almost mirrored the one Street Sense put in the Tuesday before the Blue Grass S. (G1) in which the colt ran second, beaten a nostril by DOMINICAN (El Corredor). That day he breezed five furlongs in 1:04, six days after working a bullet five-eighths in :58 2/5.

"The only difference was he got his first quarter the last time in 27 and four and today it was 26 flat," Nafzger said of the move that came seven days after Street Sense worked a bullet five furlongs in :59 at Churchill Downs.

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner came off the track quiet and composed.

"He looks like somebody had just put their grandkids on Old Nelly and took them down to the lake bottom to ride around a while," Nafzger said.

"His attitude; that's a big thing. It's up to him now; it has been all the time. He brought us here and it is up to him on Saturday. Just show me some daylight at the head of the lane, and I'll rest my case."

Street Sense likely will return to the track Wednesday morning for some light exercise. He is scheduled to walk the shedrow Thursday morning and school in the paddock in the afternoon. After that, he will gallop up to the Derby.

In other Derby news:

Cobalt Blue will fly back to California after being declared by his connections (Lauren Pomeroy/Horsephotos.com)

The connections of COBALT BLUE (Golden Missile) and XCHANGER (Exchange Rate) said their horses will not run in the Kentucky Derby. As a result, the next two horses on the graded earnings list -- TEUFLESBERG (Johannesburg) and IMAWILDANDCRAZYGUY (Wild Event) -- will fulfill their date with destiny in Derby 133.

Cobalt Blue, equipped with blinkers, jogged a mile and galloped 1 1/2 miles after schooling the paddock on Tuesday.

"I was impressed with the way he galloped this morning with the blinkers," trainer Doug O'Neill said. "It appeared to re-energize him. If it was up to me, I would run him in the Kentucky Derby, but the call is with the owner, Merv Griffin, and he is concerned about the horse's well-being both mentally and physically."

Early Tuesday afternoon, O'Neill confirmed that Cobalt Blue would not start, which allowed Teuflesberg into the probable field.

"The horse is doing great," O'Neill said. "I talked to Merv and he thought it was in the best interest of the horse not to tax him one and a quarter miles. So we're going to slow it down, go back to California and look for a race."

Jamie Sanders, who co-owns and trains Teuflesberg, learned that her horse was in the Derby after receiving a phone call from O'Neill.

"He said, 'Jamie, you're in. We're going to skip this one,'" Sanders said.

A spot opened for Teuflesberg in the Derby field on Tuesday (Lauren Pomeroy/Horsephotos.com)

Teuflesberg, who finished fourth, beaten a neck, in the Blue Grass, walked through the paddock and galloped about 1 1/4 miles on Tuesday.

"He's peaking right now," Sanders said. "I keep telling everybody he's sitting on the best race of his life."

One day after breezing three furlongs in :36 1/5 at Churchill Downs, Imawildandcrazyguy walked the shedrow and received an in-stall massage.

"We are officially running (Imawildandcrazyguy)," trainer Bill Kaplan said. "The owners (Lewis Pell and Michael Eigner) are ecstatic. It's been a harrowing, nervous time, but we're very happy now. The owners have been dreaming about this."

Storm in May will be one of two Bill Kaplan-trained Derby horses in the field (Lauren Pomeroy/Horsephotos.com)

Kaplan, who will also saddle STORM IN MAY (Tiger Ridge) in the Derby, said Mark Guidry will ride Imawildandcrazyguy.

"For me, I never thought I'd have one in the Derby, let alone two," the conditioner said. "For this horse (Imawildandcrazyguy), if there's a good pace in front of him, it will be good. He'll run all day long."

Calder-based jockey Juan Leyva has the call on Storm in May, who exits a runner-up effort in the Arkansas Derby (G2).

NOBIZ LIKE SHOBIZ (Albert the Great) jogged one around the track at Belmont Park on Tuesday. The Wood Memorial (G1) winner is scheduled to gallop on Wednesday before boarding a Louisville-bound plane in the afternoon. Trainer Barclay Tagg, who used the same schedule for 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide (Distorted Humor), said that he'd prefer to ship even later in the week.

"For one thing, it's logistics," Tagg said. "I have a lot to do here and nothing to do there. For another thing, I don't see any sense in having him there more than one day."

Nobiz Like Shobiz, a top Derby contender, will go postward under regular rider Cornelio Velasquez.

Tampa Bay Derby (G3) third DELIGHTFUL KISS (Kissin Kris), who will likely be excluded from the Derby, breezed four furlongs on a firm turf course in :50 2/5. The turf workout was to prepare the colt for Friday's American Turf S. (G3). Jockey Jamie Theriot was aboard for the move and will have the mount, if that is how things work out.

"He's got all the sense in the world," said trainer Pete Anderson, a former jockey who rode Forego in the 1973 Kentucky Derby. "And he'll win one of these big races. I don't know which one or where, but you'll see. I think I'll have him pointed for the Belmont Stakes (G1). He runs at the end and has a big closing kick."

Anderson, 75, has spent 63 years on the racetrack and remembers well riding Forego to a fourth-place finish in the Derby behind Secretariat.