Anybody See the 6th at Laurel Today?

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Your missing the point... The trip is meaningless.. Nobody is saying the colt cant be OK in the future just that at this time he hasn't shown enough speed to make anyone believe he has G1 abilty?

There are a ton of stakes horses that did not run "fast" early in their careers. I've got the PPs for the Breeders Cup in front of me. Summer Bird debuted as a 3 year old in March at Oaklawn. He got beat by a length and he ran a 65 Beyer. In his next race, he won and he ran a 78 Beyer.

Mine That Bird was winning stakes races at Woodbine in September and October of his 2 year old year. In his wins in September and October he got 77 and 78 Beyers. When he broke his maiden in August, he only got a 71 Beyer.

When Noble's Promise broke his maiden in September, he got a 73 Beyer. Piscitelli got a 63 Beyer first-time out in July when he ran 2nd beaten a head. He came back and won and got a 72 Beyer.

Crown of Thorns got a 72 first-time out in December right before he turned 3. Biofuel got a 55 Beyer when she broke her maiden first-time out in July. Da' Funnybone won by 7 lengths first-time out but he only got a 70 Beyer (granted that was in May of his 2 year old year). The list goes on and on.

With any one of those horses, if you would have made a post about them, you would have had the numbers guys telling you that those horses were "slow".