"He did beat 14 horses in that race. He's no slouch." In his first race on turf, the $1 million Colonial Turf Cup Stakes at Colonial Downs in Providence Forge, Virginia, Showing Up came from behind to win by 3 1/4 lengths over Kip Deville (who at one point was twenty lengths in front). Showing Up's time of 1:52.98 bested the previous mark, set eight years earlier, by almost two seconds. The win was number 2,000 for jockey Cornelio Velásquez. The Colonial Turf Cup was the first is a series of four races called the Grand Slam of Grass, whose possible winner would earn a $5 million bonus. The second, third, and fourth legs are the Virginia Derby, the Secretariat at Arlington Park, and the Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs. The $1 million Grade II Virginia Derby is run three weeks after the Colonial. Tagg said: "In mid-summer to ask horses to run their 'A' races back-to-back in three weeks is very hard to do. I wish it was at least four weeks. He's a skinny little horse, but if he's doing well, we'll certainly come." Eventually, Tagg decided against the complete Grand Slam for Showing Up. Instead, he ran him in the $400,000 Grade I Secretariat Stakes which the colt won, achieving the second-fastest Secretariat on record and a Beyer Speed figure of 107. His win also put him over the $1 million mark in earnings in six starts. Go Between, the winner of the Virginia Derby (the race Showing Up skipped), faded on the far turn, finishing last. Showing Up came in third in the September Man O' War Stakes at Belmont Park. The youngest horse in thefield, he lost to the Irish-bred Cacique, third by a nose to Go Deputy. Tagg skipped the Breeders' Cup Turf on Nov. 4 at Churchill Downs and entered Showing Up in the Grade II $300,000 Jamaica Handicap at Belmont. After Showing Up won (earning a 110 BRIS Late Pace rating), Tagg pointed him towards the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on Nov. 26, restricted to 3-year-olds. "The Breeders' Cup races are too tough this year, either of them", Tagg said. "He's only a 3-year-old. There are a couple of good 3-year-old races left. Hopefully, he can win them. Finishing third in a Breeders' Cup, either one, isn't going to do me a bit of good with the horse; it's not going