2/18-20 (OP): Bayakoa; Spring Fever; Southwest (G3)

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

What's interesting is that Secret Circle's full brother, Eddington Limit, is an out-and-out speed horse.

You're right...and that's his only other sib to race so far.

Where the hell is the speed and precocity coming from in that pedigree?

Eddington was a plodding developing router. The dam Ragtime Hope was a plodding developing router. And Ragtime Hope's best sibling was Really Polish ... who was another deep closing router ...



She was 3rd in a slow paced Kentucky Oaks closing from 12th and finishing behind Keeper Hill and Banshee Breeze.

Those horses like Smarty Jones, Funny Cide, War Emblem, Hard Spun ... they all had sprinters as sires and distance on the bottom. He's got distance top and bottom and can certainly sprint with any of those names...and those four horses all struggled with routing there first few tries. If anything, Secret Circle is better at a mile than any of them to this point.

Maybe I'm just totally fooled by his pedigree -- but he's still a very good and fast horse who is racing at such a high level from his debut on.

Like Hoss said, Baffert is hot right now. He's not rating anything either...if anything, the opposite.