“This filly has talent,” Richard Young says about two-year-old Somebeachsomewhere lass Come See The Show, who is out of the great Put On A Show (p,1:47.3; $2.4 million). “She’s a very big animal, but built beautifully.”

It goes without saying that the royally-bred Come See The Show has indeed ‘put on a show’ in her first few outings on the racetrack. In her second qualifier, which came on July 1 at the Meadowlands Racetrack, she paced a scintillating closing quarter that was clocked in :25.4.

“Didn’t surprise me,” Young said when asked about her finish. “A lot of two-year-olds, if they go slow enough to the three quarters, go in :26. So we went in :25.4, just that much better by a couple ticks. But she even had a little more left. So from that standpoint it was an eye-opening finish, I didn’t know she was that quick.”

In her first pari-mutuel race, which took place on July 18, the promising filly won a $39,763 division of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes at the Meadows. Young has admitted that he was concerned about how the race was playing out. Come See The Show was five and a half lengths off the lead as the field made its way down to the half-mile pole.

“The (third) quarter went :27 flat, we had to go :26 flat to catch [the leader],” Young said. After the burst of speed, Young was questioning how much the filly would have left in the tank for the final quarter. She proved she had more than enough left as she cruised to a victory by three quarters of a length in 1:52.3, the fastest of the PASS divisions that day.

“I am pretty impressed,” Young said. “That’s the fastest time for five-eighths track all year, and it’s only her first start.” Young went on to say, “so, not only does she have stamina, and looks like she can just keep going, but she has speed, too.”

Young said that it took Come See The Show a little longer than usual before she started showing promising signs that she could be special.

“Usually you can start liking your horse in February or March,” he said, “but [with Come See The Show] it was probably near the end of April.” Young went on to say that the filly’s most promising and best quality thus far, is the aforementioned stamina.

Originally, Young and his wife, Joanne, and Craig Henderson were partners on Put On A Show, which meant that every foal of hers would belong to the three of them. The ownership group ultimately broke up. Young explained that Put On A Show and her foals then had to be sold.

The Youngs bought Put On A Show back, and also bought back her first foal, Beach Showoff. And, of course, they also bought Come See The Show back. Come See The Show sold for $550,000 as Hip # 1 in the 2016 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale. However, because the Youngs owned two-thirds of the filly to begin with, they paid only one-third of the price: $183,000.

“If you wanted to find the best-bred animal on the planet, other than that one, you would’ve spent in the ‘twos’ ($200,000 range). So why spend more money on something that’s not as good, doesn’t look as good? Might as well buy back my own horse.”

The end of the ownership partnership also had influence in causing Young to have Linda Toscano train Come See The Show rather than Chris Ryder, who had trained Put On A Show.

“I have all the respect in the world for Chris Ryder, and he and I remain good friends to this day,” states the flamboyant Young, who is originally from Montreal, and was also the former owner of I Luv The Nitelife ($1.9 million), whom Ryder trained as well. “I just didn’t like the conflict that could arise since Chris still trains horses for my former partner, so we gave this filly to Linda.”

As far as the size of his stable, Young likes to focus on quality over quantity.

“I have a habit of trying to get lucky with one horse. I sold I Luv The Nitelife. Right now I breed Put On A Show, and I just hope and pray that one of the babies is good, and it appears that Come See The Show just might be that good.”

Young also owns Come See The Show’s full sister, Beach Showoff, who is retired from the track due to an illness and injury that would’ve set her career back. Instead of fighting with those circumstances, Young had her bred to Betting Line and she's set to be sold at Harrisburg in foal this fall. He also owns the yearling Steal The Show, an Ontario-eligible son of Bettors Delight who is a half-brother to Come See The Show.

“When you have such an expensive filly from that kind of lineage, you take her to whatever is available out there. So she’ll be taken to anything that s reasonable, including the Breeders Crown and the big races in Canada, and those kinds of things.”

Next up for Come See The Show should be the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes back at the Meadows on August 8.