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Originally Posted by pmayjr
As it stands right now... he's won some nice ones, but not a big big big one that could really drive up his stud fee. So barring injury, we should be confident he'll be back '07. Then again, the Jackson are breeders, so maybe they don't need the patience. I think Tagg is making a good move here.
It is kinda ironic that a lot of us think in terms of the Sackatoga boys, is the one decision we think they should make is getting rid of Tagg. Not necessarily because he's a bad trainer (I think he's a good trainer, and he holds his own in NY which says something), but just to try a different direction, a diffent way of training Funny Cide since they refuse to retire him.
So Tagg is definately making the right move here with Showing Up, and I hope he does well on Sat... as for Sackatoga, if they wanna drag out a career on a horse, they should retire FC and buy Perfect Drift lol. That horse will be running in alowance races, still mixin it up at age 12 lol.
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He is not really ever going to be very valuable as a stallion. American turf horses rarely are and even a breeders cup win would not help that much.
The Hollywood Derby has been the target for Showing Up all along. He is not a 12f horse and he is not nearly fast enough to compete with the top milers in the world.
Showing Up is a very nice horse but as you can tell from Ivan's last race, Showing Up is a notch below the top horses in the world.