Time to analyze the 2020 Breeders' Cup Juvenile field, in post position order, in the form of Haiku; a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
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#1 – Camp Hope
Impressive debut
Launches him in the deep end
This is a big ask
#2 – King Fury
Matured last time out
He's bred for a day like this
Must keep progressing
#3 – Reinvestment Risk
He's the class leader
If we pretend to ignore
Jackie's Warrior
#4 – Likeable
Late-bloom potential
Given his form, pedigree
Eye him for a price
#5 – Essential Quality
Classy pedigree
Classy Grade 1 progression
All the tools are there
#6 – Keepmeinmind
Shock second last out
And he nabs Jose Ortiz
A “hit the board” threat
#7 – Jackie's Warrior
The mountain to scale
Does he meet the hype head-on
Or begin descent?
#8 – Classier
Others have done more
But you can't ignore his barn
Off a hot debut
#9 – Sittin On Go
His dad loved Keeneland
Short-stretch finish line won't help
His deep-closing ways
#10 – Dreamer's Disease
The lesser entry
Of the Diodoro pair
Put bluntly, he'd shock
#11 – Next
Dual surface winner
Gaudy last-out score misleads
Not sure it's his spot
#12 – Hot Rod Charlie
Found new life on dirt
Great fit for an “other than”
Not the Breeders' Cup
#13 – Rombauer
Switch to dirt paid off
Another that might be felled
By Keeneland's short stretch
#14 – Calibrate
He'll have to run wide
And show something he didn't
In his limp class jump
Prediction
Good day for Darley
“Quality” tops Likeable
Eight, three fill it out
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