Storm the Court matured at such a young age, and he just happened to be good at that time. "We won it with a horse that was born in May, for goodness sake. In a bit of irony, Storm the Court was the youngest contender in the Juvenile. I just think there's so many other good horses that you haven't seen yet. It's too difficult to be ready at that point, and they're such a young age. So I just don't think you see the best that there is by any means. "So it's difficult to get a 2-year-old with that experience that early without going through a lot of growing fits. "I just think at the age of 2, there's so many horses that haven't even got a chance to see what's going on yet," he said. The son of Court Vision won the Juvenile in 2019 and has not had a victory in 10 starts since.
Peter Eurton, trainer of Storm the Court, has a different opinion. There's so many factors that can play into any win or loss."
"It's just difficult – it would be difficult if you had a $30,000 claimer that won in November and then have him win another $30,000 claiming race in May. We couldn't get him to go around the track at Palm Meadows."Ĭasse does not believe that the reason many Breeders' Cup winners fizzle in the Derby is that they are precocious as 2-year-olds. "It was a little more difficult with him, because he, you know, he gave us some obstacles along the way – his behavior did. And he did something nobody else did, and that was to rally from, like, from nowhere. "My thought has been and always will be that Classic Empire probably should have won the Kentucky Derby. (He unseated his rider in one of those five, the G1 Hopeful.) He also won the Arkansas Derby (G1) before finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby. From another perspective, four Kentucky Derby winners started in the Juvenile but did not win it: Spend A Buck (third in the Juvenile), Alysheba (third), Sea Hero (seventh) and Mine that Bird (12th).Ĭasse's Classic Empire was a Pioneerof the Nile colt who won four of his first five starts, including the Juvenile.
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