His works keep improving, the latest being a half-mile breeze in :48. For a No. 1-ranked horse, it is still difficult to get a good gauge on him because of his two misfortunes, so you’re basically relying on an Ellis Park maiden romp and his stakes-record Iroquois Stakes (G3) victory at Churchill Downs. What it all means is that you are taking a chance that those two races define him. Pedigree-wise, his female family hasn’t produced much, but his third dam is by dual classic winner Pleasant Colony, and his fourth dam is by Round Table, out of Pink Pigeon, who set a new American record of 1:45 4/5 for 1 1/8 miles on grass at Santa Anita and ran 1 1/4 miles in 1:58 1/5 on grass at Saratoga.
