Hansen emulating his father Tapit in his early part of the career, as he looks forward to transfer his good form in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
The 2-year-old colt, Hansen, trained by Michael Maker for owner Kendall Hansen announced himself in the fray, as he destroyed opponents in his two starts left, right and centre winning races with considerable margins.
The son of Tapit, out of Stormy Sunday by Sir Cat, Hansen demolished his rivals in the Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes, where a bunch of juvenile colts contested against him.
He ripped past his opponents in the 1 1/16 mile test, as he managed to cover the distance in a blistering pace with winning time of 1 minute and 45.83 seconds.
The Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes was run on 24 September, 2011, for the first time since 2008, and in all of his runnings at Turfway Park, the race built a proud history, with runners like Point Given and Boston Harbor won the race to build up their illustrious
careers.
The winner of the 2011, Juvenile Cup looked like he just might be capable of upholding that tradition, as he won the Poly Track race by a massive margin of 13 ¼ lengths, over the runner up Fine.
The flash gray colt was coming off a win in the maiden special weight race, which dominated completely, as he downed his fellow juvenile colts in the 5 ½ furlong dash, with the winning time of 1 minute and 5.12 seconds winning by a huge margin of 12 ¼ lengths.
The colt is so far emulating his father, Tapit, as the horse in his time won races with huge margins as well. He was a lightly raced horse, who made 6 starts in his entire career and went on to win 3 of them.
Hansen is not exactly large or muscular, but approaching the 3-year-old age, the colt will most likely fill up and can throw he weight around the race course.
In his second start in the Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes, he handled the distance of 1 1/16 miles very well, and he has a pedigree of good dirt horses, and because of that the switch from Poly Track to dirt track will not be much of a problem.
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