THE CAT CAME BACK ! [Holden]

The Basics
Registered Name: The Cat Came Back
Nickname: Holden
Age: 3 (Y7)
Breed: Thoroughbred
Colour & Markings: Bay, small star, front pasterns
Height: 15.1 HH
Gender: Colt
Personality:

Holden's keepers jokingly call him aggressively lazy. It's true, he hates to work so much that he'll snap at anyone who tries to make him. He hates being tacked, doesn't particularly like being groomed, and rarely cooperates with workouts. In the barn, he's fairly indifferent and tends to spend most of his time dozing. He likes women better than men because women, in his experience, either leave him alone or give him sugar, two things that he really enjoys in life. He's surprisingly sedate for a colt, especially a three year old, a fact which does not go unremarked in the barn. Even his protestations about work lack real fire behind them, he'll snap and threaten to kick but he's rarely an actual danger. He spends most of his time asleep or eating - he loves food and it's hard to keep weight off of him, an odd subversion of the norm. He doesn't spook easily, in fact he's pretty bombproof. He doesn't have any halter manners or standing manners to speak of, however, and he'll move as much as he pleases in the cross-ties. The one thing he absolutely hates is getting into the trailer, he usually needs to be at the track the day before because trailer rides upset him.

Racing Style:

Holden has a tendency to get left at the gate if his rider doesn't pretty much force him to get out of it. He goes into the gate fine - he's a cool cucumber and could pretty much take a nap in there - it's getting him out that's the problem. If he gets far behind the pack at the very beginning, he will give up. The best place for him at the start of a race is somewhere in the mid-pack and either at the rail or the outside where he can't get boxed in, because he's been known to come completely to a walk when that happens. He's a stalker by nature, but he doesn't have the prolonged speed to stalk from the beginning. If he's set up to press the leader 3/4 or more through the race and he alone is challenging, he will show his main strength. Holden has been known to pick up extreme speeds when challenged, for fairly short bursts, but that's often (not always) enough to get him ahead. He is not the stalker that will come from "out of the clouds" - he becomes very focused, even "obsessed" with beating one horse and one horse alone and he needs to have his eye on that horse. If he loses, he loses spectacularly. If he wins, he either manages to pull away from the leader completely or barely noses his way in - he's hardly ever a neck or just a length ahead. It's either a nose or quite a bit farther with him. Hates the dirt, loves the slop - whereas rain trips up other horses, he does surprisingly well in it.

Discipline/s: Flat racing
Pedigree: Created x Created

Racing Information
Earnings: $27,000
Banners: None
Race Record: 5:1-1-1
Workout/Training Posts:(NEWEST to OLDEST)

• where should I begin?
  
• thought he was a goner.
  

Dirt: Bad
Turf: Great
Distance: 8-13 Furlongs
Leg Type: Closer
Racing Results:

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March Maiden Turf - 1st - [Unrandomized]
February Maiden Turf - 2nd - [Unrandomized]
Wannabefamous Turf Stakes - 3rd - [Unrandomized]
STABLE FACE OFF* Turf Stakes - 4th - [Unrandomized]
Silk Road Stakes - 5th - [Unrandomized]
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