Fed Biz what did you all think?
 

happened to see this race live think 3rd from SA today and thought it was pretty impressive. i would be curious to know the beyer for him. anyone else on here see it and if so what were your impressions?

Fed Biz looked like a very good prospect today.

I had mentioned in the thread about the Pletcher Discreet Cat 2yo that the Macho Rocket debut maiden race at Hollywood Park was sure to be a productive race.

Macho Rocket was the sales topper at OBS April. He worked an unblinkered 1/4 mile in a sales best 20.40 seconds. He sold for just $22,000 as a yearling -- and resold for $825,000 at OBS April.

Baffert had been working Macho Rocket for seemingly forever and even had multiple six furlong works into him and about six gate works into him before his debut.

I was pretty certain Macho Rocket would debut at odds-on favortisim if Baffert ever got around to bothering to run him in a race.

He debuts on a Sunday at Hollywood Park with Fed Biz in the last race. Fed Biz (A Giant's Causeway out of Wild Again) was the one who was bet. Macho Rocket went wire-to-wire at 6-to-1 odds.

TVG cameras showed Baffert staying to watch that race (it was like 8 or 9 PM) ... they pan to him after Macho Rocket won and Baffert looked disgusted. You could tell by his reaction he didn't give a sh!t about Macho Rocket winning and Fed Biz was the reason he was there.

Bling Cha Bling pressed Macho Rocket -- made a serious bid for the lead against him on the turn -- and faded to finish 7th. He came back and destroyed a MSW field wire-to-wire in a grass sprint. Fed Biz was 4th as a beaten favorite -- he won the faster of split heats today as a 2nd time starter. Zackn'mat was 2nd to Macho Rocket last out -- he was 2nd to Fed Biz today at 8/1 odds -- and ran faster than the winner of the other split heat at Santa Anita went two races later today.

Very sharp allowance win by Fed Biz at Santa Anita a few minutes ago.

Zackn'mat also returned to win his next start. Macho Rocket is sidelined.

Pretty effortless with the OK Consulado as sparing partner. 1:34.3.

Im sitting here at work gettin ready to leave good to hear that he did ok. i was wondering why he was entered in this spot but im glad to hear that things went well. where does he go next? i know this sounds dumb but i was kinda thinking Arkansas maybe???? i just wonder if baffert is gonna keep him away from liason.

8.5f options would be San Felipe March 10 or Rebel March 17.

If Baffert thought he could straight to 9f, Sunland Derby is March 25.

How is The Factor doing these days?

Grate name.

Yep.

Bejarano has hustled him into stride in his last two races now -- that really back-fired last time and got him caught in a breakaway duel which he was wrestled out of on the backstretch...this time he was able to settle him a little easier because of the outside post.

Very green horse as well once he gets clear. He's running fast now and I get the feeling he has a lot of room for improvement and development.

I'm interested to see how he performs when he's given a more passive ride from the gate.

Worked 7f this morning at HOL and has been steady on the tab since Malibu..

02/09/2012 HOL 7F 1:25.00 All Weather Track Fast H
02/03/2012 HOL 6F 1:11.80 All Weather Track Fast H
01/28/2012 HOL 5F :59.00 All Weather Track Fast H
01/17/2012 HOL 4F :49.00 All Weather Track Fast H
01/10/2012 HOL 4F :48.20 All Weather Track Fast H

12/22/2011 HOL 4F :48.60 All Weather Track Fast B
12/17/2011 HOL 6F 1:11.80 All Weather Track Fast H
12/12/2011 HOL 6F 1:12.60 All Weather Track Fast H
12/07/2011 HOL 4F :48.00 All Weather Track Fast H

So far -- El Padrino (100) is the only horse in this crop to run a triple digit Beyer in a 2-turn route and that came over a wet track.

The days two dirt route races are now complete at Santa Anita and I think there's a very good chance this Beyer will come back right around 100.

A beast in the making. Would be great to see Kaleem have some racing luck given the investment that he's made into this game.

See if you can find out what's up with Macho Rocket for me.

His only start was that good maiden win in Fed Biz's debut race and he hasn't worked since Jan 9th.

He had a sales-best 20.40 unblinkered 1/4 mile at OBS April: http://obssales.com/aprcatalog/2011/1049.wmv

I think he's the best 3yr old in the country right now. He's by the best sire and is trained by the best trainer.... It should all work out. Ill take him, battle hardened and and horse who ran second to el padrino who's name I forget. Give me those 3 n I have a derby winner.

Looks like a Southern Cal speedball. Very good horse but maybe not Derby type.

He's hardly a 'California speedball' having already displayed his 2 turn predilection in the back to back mile wins without rankness and is bred top and bottom to go a real route of ground.

Thats not a bad number at all. And he looked pretty good to me doing it.

so long/short his value in the 1st pool of KD is gonna be zilcho???? I know i know that future bets are dumb but my wife and i just had a new baby and i haven't had time to reallyl do much horse racing wise and it owuld give me something to watch for.

Not bred like a speedball or an early maturing type at all. He's been in what appear to be among the strongest of the races for his generation at his level. He won nicely on the stretchout and beat a colt that came back to win. I don't they paid $950k for a horse that might win the Pat O'Brien. He's got all the earmarks of a classic colt.

Stick a fork in him.

I speak the truth Douglas.

Gonna play Devil's advocate on this one.

Fed Biz has been close to hot paces in his last 2. He was the leader at the 3/4 point of call in both those races, where the fraction for both at a one mile distance was 1:10+. It's conceivable that Fed Biz would be the frontrunner in subsequent starts as a horse like Consulado (who was previously ear-marked for the 7f San Vicente before the allowance race came up) is unlikely to continue on to the 9f preps.

As far as pedigree, the Fed Biz, through the dam, descends from a family that includes champion Euro 2yo Minardi (won sprints), worldwide champion 2yo Johannesburg (all Euro wins sprinting; lone US win at one turn), Tale Of The Cat (a frontrunner, who's only stakes win came in a sprint), Preach (G1 2yo, cut back to sprints at 3), and Pulpit (a frontrunning A.P. Indy colt who ran 7f in 1:21+ in his debut). The dam herself was a frontrunner who's only stakes win (4 for 5 lifetime) came in a sprint.

Giant's Causeway was a Group 1 winner at 2, did most of his subsequent running at a flat mile, and the majority of his offspring shows early speed over a route of ground.

There's nothing but precocity and speed in this colt's immediate pedigree. And all that ignores the fact that his trainer prefers his runners to be on or near the pace to begin with.

I think it's a classic speed-route pedigree.

The sire was a close 2nd to Tiznow in the Breeders Cup Classic. The dam sire won the Breeders Cup Classic wire-to-wire.

The dam won her only route start over a next-out stakes winner -- and she is a half sister to Tale of the Cat who was 2nd to Awesome Again in the Whitney and was beaten less than 3 lengths as just a 3rd time starter in a Haskell field loaded with five excellent horses. Those being his only two career tries at 9f's or beyond.

Not particularly in love with the name. It reminds me of that made up game on Star Trek: the Original Series, Fizzbin. Steve Haskin and Lenny gave Jack Wolf grief over Algorithms, but names like Fed Biz and I'll Have Another aren't my idea of what you want to hear after "Kentucky Derby winner _____" or "Triple Crown winner ____." How names sound in the stretch ought to matter. It might be good to think about how it would look in the pedigree if your horse makes it as a stallion (broodmares seem to go all over the place in terms of name wackiness and have for centuries so no point grumbling there). Hoof Hearted gets a pass. That's just too funny to resist.

I guess after they win a race or races like that, you gotta just embrace it and God knows there've been some stupid KD winning names, but why you pay nearly a million dollars and name a horse this, I dunno. Watch him win the TC just to be all "so there" about it. Names like Alpha, Algorithms, Liaison, etc. are more in line with what you'd wanna see on a wall or in the press. They don't all have to be one word, but something not ridiculous or silly for a horse you invest in with money and TC hopes. I personally think Algorithm would've been better. Naming a singular horse something plural just sounds weird.

The dam of Fed Biz is named Spunoutacontrol.

Yeah, I mean I get the idea of it. I just think it sounds "meh" as far as a stand alone thing. I guess it reads okay on the page. It's the musicality of the name that's not my favorite. It's not a name I think sounds great coming out of a track announcer for instance. Too staccato and feels truncated. It's an abbreviation so I'm sure that's why.