Discreet Cat's BC Plans Announced

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Originally Posted by pmayjr

Well there is the "Sun King" angle.

Sun King won that 6f Sprint Stakes race at Keeneland back in the spring. I'm pretty sure that was his first cut-back in distance and he won. You know the fractions will be suicidal in the Sprint, so DC could sit off of it and hope to come with a run late.

Even if Godolphin's idea is to save him for next year- I'm so afraid he's gonna pull a Ghostzapper and be retired after a race. If you got him in good form now, you gotta keep moving up. There is this angle too:

What if he loses whatever BC race he's entered in? So what? Just give him a layoff until '07 and start it up again. Give him a couple of easy spring preps, and get him prepped for the biggies next summer.

I hope you didn't just compare the Commonwealth BC to the BC Sprint.

And Discreet Cat is too fast to close. He'll be up there running a :21 quarter with all of them if they're insane enough to put him in the Sprint.

This is a completely different situation than Ghostzapper's. Ghostzapper had already won the Classic, and had already won HOY. There was no reason to bring him back. They brought him back to try to showcase his talent, then realized it wasn't worth the risk once he hurt himself.

Discreet Cat hasn't done anything yet. He won the UAE Derby and The Jerome. That's it. There's absolutely no incentive to run him once next year and retire him.

It's not about losing the BC race. It's about possibly losing the horse.

You're worried about not seeing him next year. I'd say there's a much bigger chance this fear will become reality if he's in this year's BC than if he isn't.