Discreet Cat earns 115 Beyer Speed Figure

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Originally Posted by Cunningham Racing

I'll say this, i is VERY clear to me that DC has and willhave some serious health issues at some point probably in the near future....he is NOT a pretty mover at all....so if you enjoy watching him run, be glad the Sheiks have him because they wil get him right and keep running him as long as it is nothing really bad and controllable with time.....Think about if some ownership like Cash is King owned the horse and he had the LEAST little thing go wrong with him....he would be retired and sold to a stud farm in a heart beat....thyat is a fact..

I agree with you in that DC is not a pretty mover. As I have said in other posts, he runs like a sore, unsound horse, and he hits the ground really hard with his front end. He has a snappy action instead of a fluid action. That is why I don't think that he would ever be a good turf horse even with his high knee action. Now, I think Bernardini could run on the turf...

I don't know Joel about Afleet Alex. Afleet Alex's injury was pretty bad. I think that they had every intention of running him until he experienced that condylar fracture. I believe that the screw did him in. I think that they knew in the back of their minds that he was finished when he suffered that injury, and tried to bring him back to please the public. It was the best thing for Alex to retire him. I would have retired him too. It came to my attention in hindsight that the horse was mismanaged a little bit, and probably had some minor issues going on that turned into a big issue.

I don't know about Cash is King's other horses...