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Old 01-23-2012, 06:12 AM
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Default Jan has been Discreet Cat's month

Discreet Cat was a great talent. In his debut at Saratoga, he won a 2yo MSW race running a few points faster than the undefeated sensation Lost In The Fog did in winning the Grade 1 King's Bishop on that exact same card.

After that win, Discreet Cat was bought from Robsham by Sheik Mohammed and was sentenced to spend the winter in Dubai. Normally, doom for an American 2yo.

In Dubai, Discreet Cat ran two amazing races. In just his 3rd career start, at 9 furlongs, he had the older Invasor (who had been training in Florida for Kiaren McLaughlin -- and would win the Pimlico Special against older horses less than 2 months later) at his flank and being hard-ridden to go with him. Discreet Cat effortlessly left him. On time, he ran a Beyer I estimated in the 114-to-116 range and the crushed Invasor was about the only horse who was forward and didn't stop in that race. Just great stuff from a 3rd time starter at 9f. Two other undefeated and very highly regarded older South American G1 winners also got crushed in there.

Discreet Cat missed the KY Derby. He was rumored lame and out of training.

He had a monster 3-race campaign to end the year. Ending with a 1:32 2/5th Cigar Mile win, equaling Easy Goer's track record.

He was subjected to a second trip to Dubai. He was entered and scratched out of his return race with a lung infection.

He was entered in the Dubai World Cup at 10fs with no prep race. Rumored to scratch, he "ran" -- he was dead last at every single call and tailed off to be beaten a pole. Even two slugs who had been running 2+ mile races at Saudi Arabian tracks showed more early speed and pulled away from him.

He returned to America, running dismally in the Vosburgh and BC Dirt Mile.

I was pretty excited about what he might do as a stallion.

Because he tanked so hard as a 4yo when he was performing at a claimer's level in his three races that season ... he didn't get the kind of support he should have. Shiek Mohammed also retired stallions Street Sense, Hard Spun, and Any Given Saturday at that same time -- and Bernardini just one year prior.

Anyway, from his first crop (current 3yo's) -- not a single yearling sold for more than $230,000. An unraced 3yo named Bulldog Legend (Indian Charlie mare) was the sales topper at 230K. That one just had its first five furlong work at Gulfstream this week.

I was excited to see his 2yo's at the under-tack show the following year. Other than a now unraced 3yo named Bubble Conditions who was quite fast -- there was nothing to see.

His 2-year-olds didn't do jack sh!t until December. All of a sudden, they've been coming out of the woodwork the last six or seven weeks.

He sired the winner of the two clear-cut fastest races at 8f or more by a 3yo this year. Those two races have gone 5 Beyer points faster than any other route race this month. He's had impressive maiden winners in Florida, Louisiana (a coupe of them), and New York. He's had a 2-for-2 stakes winner in Japan.

The stud fee is just $12,500 and his first crop are only newly turned 3yo's, so he's been all but written off even though his oldest foals have been racing less than a year. It will be interesting to see how the offspring do from here on out.
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