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Originally Posted by miraja2
Yeah he might not be a top 5yr old three years from now either. WHO CARES!
Nobody talked about how this horse would do next spring. You sound like those of us who are excited about the horse predicted he would win the Derby and the BC Classic next year. Nobody did! We are smart enough to know that it is impossible to predict who will be good 3yo the previous July. This horse looks like a very good 2yo to me (and others). If he stays healthy I like his chances in some of the bigger 2yo races this fall. That is what I said to begin this thread, and I still think that. If you disagree with that, fine. But please don't make it seem like we were saying he was lock to win the Derby or anything like that. ArlJim is right. YOU were the one to bring up how good he would be as a 3yo.
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I am all for reason, and a reasonable person sees a nice horse, not "the best 2yr old in the last 10yrs". He's an ok horse, every single year we get these early budding 2yr olds and every year they flame out. His times are nothing special and I know for certain they think they have numerous better 2yr olds in their barn. That is just the Pletcher barn too. Last I checked other trainers have 2yr olds too. We haven't even seen Pletcher's $16M horse either.
The Dogwood horse is a significantly better horse than CQ. I would expect Pletcher to keep CQ away from him as long as possible.