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Originally Posted by Dahoss
I think you would think differently if his sire was someone else.
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Not really.
I felt this way about Barbaro, and he was sired by Dynaformer! Yuck.
The only way his being sired by IC has affected my reaction or impression of Mo is that I'm not surprised by how good he's looked.
I was pretty level headed with Indian Blessing after all. That was before I was on here, but I saw IB entered in a msw at DMR. When she was scratched with the intent of going to a msw at Saratoga, I told DrugS that she was almost certainly going to be the BC 2yo filly winner that year. She had insane works and was the first IC runner I'd seen to that point that wasn't out of a nickel claimer mare or out of a mare that was unraced. That Baffert was going to fly her 3000 miles to avoid that godawful DMR track had to mean something significant.
While I was a fan of that filly, after her first two starts, I didn't think she was nearly as good as most other people did.
She went 3 for 3 as a 2yo filly winning the BC and was named champion that year. I actually lowered my opinion of her after each start.
So, while my initial expectations of her were admittedly a bit overly optimistic, I was pretty rational about her once she actually raced.
Most of the time when I start talking up IC or one of his progeny, I'm poking some fun at PG1985 and his totally out of control obsession with Giants Causeway. I embellish somewhat to that end.
That all being said however, IC was one of the single most awesomely talented horses I've ever seen. His first four races are better than any other horses first four races that I can ever remember. That is in my time watching horses that is.