Good Lord another pletcher freak

[Betsy]

Originally Posted by Pointg5

Why is everyone so hung up on breeding?

Once they hit the track it means very little. Was everyone drueling over Afleet Alex's breeding in his 2yo year, no, but he worked out pretty well. I guess what I am trying to say is this whole breeding thing, makes me a little crazy, because it's not like at the 1/8th pole they stop the race and say "well I am by so and so, so I should win." I don't get why about this time of year, everyone checks the breeding of what some of these trainers are holding and deems them Triple Crown Prospects, that may be, but let's get them on the track. That is 10 times more insane than what Oracle is saying, at least this horse showed he could win. I don't care if CQ was by a $5k Claimer, when I finally got home and watched the race last night, I thought it was impressive, I liked the way he was going at the end.

It's the truth, though. I'm sure CQ was very impressive, but there ARE plenty of well-bred and/or talented horses out there that haven't set foot on a track yet. There may yet be some babies that are better than CQ or there may not be - I don't like to make premature proclamations, that's all. If other's don't believe it's premature, that's fine too. We'll know in a few months, anyway.