The Derby is a race restricted to 3-year-old horses and is held in the spring of their 3-year-old season. A horse in the spring of its 3-year-old is comparable to a human teenager, around 16 to 18 years old. Teenagers should not be pushed too hard. Horses do not become fully mature, both physically and mentally, until the spring of their 4-year-old season. However, people often make winning the Derby their ultimate goal. For the horse, the Derby is merely the starting point of its racing career. I believe that people need to move away from the idea that the Derby is the be-all and end-all of horse racing.
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This year’s Epsom Derby is a race without a standout star. Every horse has a chance of winning.
Within Storm Cat’s pedigree, there is blood cassified as B. if even a single trace of B blood appears anywhere in a horse’s pedigree, that horse’s rank falls to AA2 or lower. Horse whose name go down in horse racing history must be ranked AAA1 or AAA2. The reason American horse racing declined is that they made the mistaken judgement that “Storm Cat is good blood”. Once a pedigree containing B blood is allowed to remain, it eats away at that nation’s horse racing like virus. I call this condition “Galapagosization”. American horse racing has already progressd far down this path of Galapagosization.