Monday figs..

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Sucks? What exactly are your expectations of a 2yo colt if you think his last two races indicate a horse who "sucks?"
I think he's been pretty impressive so far, and appears to be improving with every start. Bad starts in his last two have had no impact on him crushing his opposition. Impossible to know if he will continue to improve, but I see no reason why he shouldn't, and I also see no reason why he couldn't be even better when stretched out to 7f+ later in the year. I realize its easy to say about a horse with three big margins of victory, but I like his prospects for a good fall campaign quite a bit.

If you compare where we're at this year with this point last year this crop looks much better.

The Bashford Manor/Sanford winner Backtalk looked like a sprinter through and through. D'Funnybone beat up on a hopelessly bad Saratoga Special field and had the look of a sprinter himself. Worstcasescenario won a stirring rendition of the Adirondack as a 17-1 outsider.

There were very few interesting maiden winners at all last year, other than Dublin (we know how that turned out) and Discreetly Mine, who didn't win until Alabama day last year.

Everyone can beat up on Kantharos all they want. The only thing I'd like to see him do in the near future is face a top horse. That will happen in time.

NT