Va Derby

Originally Posted by oracle80

I wouldnt be too optimistic about him even hitting the board against older horses in the Turf Invitational or Turf in the Bc. He picked the wrong year to be born, lol. The older US grass horses are as deep as any group I have ever seen. Cacique, English Channel, Relaxed Gesture, and Better Talk Now are a damn good bunch. Then you have to toss in the extremely good Euros who will both come over for those two races. Tough year for a 3Yo to tackle olders.

Next year though he is looking at a pretty weak group of turf horses unless all of these horses hang around. This years 3yo turf horses are terrible.

[blackthroatedwind]

I'm not especially high on Showing Up, mostly because I simply feel we need to see more, but I'm not so sure it isn't at least POSSIBLE that he could close the gap to the elders this year. I think they are reasonably good, and deeper than the ones we have had in recent years, but I wouldn't exactly call them a fearsome bunch. 3YOs can improve a lot in a short period of time. I know that I didn't think Kitten's Joy would be able to do what he did late in the year at this point two years ago.

Once again, I am not a HUGE fan of Showing Up, mostly because I think he is being overrated based on his win two weeks ago, but I am also not ready to preclude AT LEAST the possibility that he is on equal ground with older horses by the Fall. I'm open minded on this horse.