HicCups first, then Cups

Many owners have responded to the slightly disappointed tone of my blog entry below with some wise words of logic and encouragement

Mick and Wendy wrote-
Many a very good horse does not get to the track until a 3 year old. Good news is 95% of the time horses just grow out of shin soreness, and other than that KW has made it through 2 full preparations without any other problems. So the signs are that he has some ability and is generally a good sound type. Here's hoping next time in we get to meet and have a beer at the track.

Eddie says-
Agreed.Just look at the race record of Might & Power on which bloodlines and genetic crosses KW’s mating was developed.

and Warren replied-

In the past I think have had only 2 out of 16 or 17 (or so) previous horses race as 2YO's (both won but one of them ended up with bone chips and had years in the paddock after two wins at 3 and after a lot of tlc won again at 6 - albeit by that time in the backblocks where I was living at the time) so I am patience personified! Just about all the rest of them commenced racing at three years after two or three preps. I don't know sometimes how people get some 2YO's into the top races - must take a lot of pushing - and I suppose who can blame them with the money out there for the very best??).

And Eddie, you would be pleased to know that I ran into Denis Roberts (Trevannah Stud Principal) one evening at Woolworths in Scone (doing the grocery shopping - both of us were!) and mentioned the then unnamed KW to him because I knew he had been in a Trevannah draft at the sales. His face absolutely lit up and he said he always, always rated him highly. He said he always had the natural athlete thing going and that we were sure to have a lot of fun with him. His words were "he is a racehorse". Enough said.

Haven't gone deeply into the pedigree yet and appreciate the background as to what you did with the mating plan. The bloke who owns Tesio Power is our NZ correspondent for Turf Monthly so I will get him to do a comparison of both and send it to me. I will pass it on to you.

I can wait for quite a while yet-