For those of you who have been seeking an update on Lael Stables' Showing Up, the jury is still out on whether the 5-year-old son of Strategic Mission will return to racing. He remains under the care of Barclay Tagg and, according to Roy Jackson, no decision has been made as to whether he'll come back to racing or retire.
According to Tagg, the horse was moved to a farm in Ocala, Fla. at the beginning of this week, and will be turned out there for an unspecified amount of time.
"It's still day-to-day with him; it's too late to make him a stallion this year, but if we can't get him ready for some fall races, I'd say he'd be retired," Tagg said. "He still has some nagging problems we want to get rid of."
Bred in Kentucky by Nellie M. Cox and Rose Retreat Farm out of the T.V. Commercial mare Miss Alethia, Showing Up made his last start in the 2007 edition of the April 13 Maker's Mark Mile Stakes (gr. IIT). In 2006, he won the Hollywood Derby (gr. IT), the Jamaica Breeders' Cup Handicap (gr. IIT), the Secretariat Stakes (gr. IT), and the Coolmore Lexington (gr. IIT) in addition to the Colonial Turf Cup Stakes.
His last recorded work was a Jan. 27 six-furlong move in 1:13.80 at Palm Meadows Training Center.
