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Originally Posted by Cajungator26
Look at his second dam Terpsichorist and then look further back to HER dam Glad Rags. There is some distance influence there as she is a member of the same family as Colonial Affair who won the Belmont coincidentally. He just looks like a horse built to go further IMO. If you really look at him, he is built very similar to Northern Dancer. I could be wrong, but I don't think that he is a 5 furlong horse.
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You're going back to 1965 Irish 2yo filly champ Glad Rags -- the 3rd dam of both Colonial Affair and Union Rags.
However, Union Rags is Dixie Union out of a Gone West.
Colonial Affair is Pleasant Colony out of Nijinksy.
Union Rags is bred to be extremely precocious all-around. Up close, he's best suited as a sprinter/miler IMO.
I'd load up on him in the Belmont if the race was 7 furlongs or a 1-turn mile.