Circular Quay

[jcs11204]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

It was a great stretch duel and a fun race.

Nobody is pretending these are superstars, but they're pretty good, and they put on a helluva show yesterday. May there be more throughout the year.

i think they both could be superstars in this weak division...
no one knows if curlin will return from dubai the same horse, i think especially grasshopper could be great.

[alysheba4]

i was very surprised with the speed Q.C showed....... i dont know if it was the blinkers or if he just loves the fairgrounds. bottom line is it was a fine performance, it seems that whatever a horse does some folks always want to down grade it

[MISTERGEE]

happen to be listening to the down the stretch radio show on sirius on saturday and they thought his chances were literally laughable and made it sound like he should be 99-1. of course we are all wrong more than right in horeracing but i thought their assessment was odd considering who entered the horse

[CSC]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

i was very surprised with the speed Q.C showed....... i dont know if it was the blinkers or if he just loves the fairgrounds. bottom line is it was a fine performance, it seems that whatever a horse does some folks always want to down grade it

In my opinion the blinkers were the difference for him that day, he basically put Garrett into the race early on without being asked, really it was quite surprising to see him that close to the pace that day, the best comparison I remember this happening to a horse with a simular profile was Aptitude. When Frankel put the blinkers on him he raced like a different horse. I can see Circular Quay having a good year in a otherwise weak division with the exception of Curlin if he can run races like he did at the Fairgrounds.