Declan's Moon 2nd

[The Indomitable DrugS]

About a year and a half ago, I put a horse in stablemail right after he debuted, when I was doing my trip notes for Calder...I saw that he was a Christope Clement debuter, and showed real uncommon raw speed for one of his debuters.

I looked up his pedigree---and almost fell over. It was as sensational as turf pedigree get--and it was all VERY hidden! The Tomlinson number wasn't much, the sire was underrated turf sire Holy Bull, and the dam was winless, and had only produced unraced foals.

But she was kin to English Derby winner Benny The Dip, the outstanding Turf horse Cryptic Rascal, as well as Wakia---who is the dam of LEGENDARY Japanese turf horse Silence Suzuka...arguably the most raw talented turf horse of all-time...and almost certainly the most underrated turf horse of my lifetime.

Anyway, I get a stablemail that he's running on the turf at KEE. His 2nd turf start--in his only other turf start he exited a 5.5 furlong dirt race, off about a six month layoff, and was beaten less than 5 lengths at 20/1, when having every reason in the world to be a short horse.

But naturally, I didn't even bother to download the form for KEE yesterday...I had other plans and was just sick of their meet. The horse won easily at 36/1 odds....I'll be on him next time out, when he's probably facing a much tougher field, and will likely be no greater than 9/1.