Archwarrior

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

why not the hopefull..sounds like he may have issues..and trust me they will be race riding against him..imo

[tiggerv]

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[King Glorious]

Solid. Didn't see spectacular though.

[KirisClown]

The race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY1gVuV3T3M

[Indian Charlie]

Rather leggy looking sort. A bit green as well.

I'll restate the obvious. Router.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by KirisClown

The race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY1gVuV3T3M

just watched, thanks for posting. he looked good. too bad he's in that barn.

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Solid. Didn't see spectacular though.

If you really want to see a future star, the last thing you want is some horse blitzing the group by 10 with blazing fractions.

[outofthebox]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

If you really want to see a future star, the last thing you want is some horse blitzing the group by 10 with blazing fractions.

Exactly my thought..Reading Doug's overview of his sale breeze this is kind of what was expected from him...

[Cannon Shell]

Honestly if there wasnt so much hype concerning this horse wouldnt people be a lot more impressed? Of course now things will be "managed" so dont look for much from him again till March after the obligatory blowout stakes win going longer sometime this Fall in a race where Pletcher has 70% of the nominees.

[10 pnt move up]

meh

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Honestly if there wasnt so much hype concerning this horse wouldnt people be a lot more impressed? Of course now things will be "managed" so dont look for much from him again till March after the obligatory blowout stakes win going longer sometime this Fall in a race where Pletcher has 70% of the nominees.

I think this is true.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Honestly if there wasnt so much hype concerning this horse wouldnt people be a lot more impressed? Of course now things will be "managed" so dont look for much from him again till March after the obligatory blowout stakes win going longer sometime this Fall in a race where Pletcher has 70% of the nominees.

sad but true.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Honestly if there wasnt so much hype concerning this horse wouldnt people be a lot more impressed? Of course now things will be "managed" so dont look for much from him again till March after the obligatory blowout stakes win going longer sometime this Fall in a race where Pletcher has 70% of the nominees.

It would have been nice to see this horse debut in a bigger field.

Velazquez was riding Archwarrior hard early on and he didn't show a whole lot of early speed -- in a bigger field he would have had dirt kicked in his face and saw some adversity and traffic because he didn't have the gate speed to outrun it.

I was worried that the true speedballs might lose an edge in these type of races with the field sizes limited -- but they've done well there and it's still very important in those type of races even with smaller fields where the horses who don't have it are less likely to find trouble and adversity.