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Originally Posted by boldruler
Thanks for telling me what they are doing with Showing Up. I will be sure to tell that to Tagg at Arlington.  I guess Bill Finley was just making up his article in the NYT too. Not only will Showing Up go to the BC Turf, but he might be one of the favorites after his Turf Classic win.
Showing Up is the real deal. Nobody has seen anything from him yet. There is a lot more in the tank with that horse. I still don't think he has Barbaro talent on the grass, but some close to him do.
Here are some parts of the article on Showing Up in the NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/sp...=1&oref=slogin
Change to the Turf Offers Horse a Chance to Show Off
By BILL FINLEY
Published: July 18, 2006
“Everybody who gets on him says he’s as good a horse as they’ve ever sat on,” said Showing Up’s trainer, Barclay Tagg, also the trainer of Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner. “The jockey thinks he’s a super horse. I’m a guarded person and I don’t like to get too excited, but he’s done everything we’ve asked of him.”
Tagg said that Barbaro deserved to be the 3-year-old champion, an award usually given to a dirt horse, but he added that Showing Up could be named the male turf champion.
With that goal in mind, he has mapped out a schedule that consists of the Secretariat Stakes on Aug. 12 at Arlington Park, the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic on Oct. 7 at Belmont and the Breeders’ Cup Turf on Nov. 4 at Churchill Downs. |
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
"Not only will Showing Up go to the BC Turf, but he might be one of the favorites after his Turf Classic win."
Hang on....let me wipe the tears from my eyes. The horse beat nothing in the Turf Cup (his only start on turf) and now all of a sudden he might be one of the favorites in the BC Turf??? against Europes best? against Americas best older turf horses???
