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Couple loud hacks from ‘28 SS/3B Dylan Murphy (DMurf14) from G1 6’3” 200 w equal athleticism/physicality. Strong wrists lead direct path for a heavy barrel that plays out-front. 6.72 runner. The #1️⃣ prospect in the sophomore class.. 2K single + deep L7 👇 Shooter Hunt
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![‡ Brant – Fast, Expensive, and Worrying In a recent 2yo MSW race at Santa Anita, Brant, a $3m OBS March sales purchase, made a winning debut for his high-profile connections. Sent off at odds of 4/5, he tracked the pace before taking command on the turn, and drew off to win by 5 1/4 lengths. He recorded a very fast raw time, and a 101 Beyer figure. His high auction price was due largely to his having breezed an eighth of a mile in :09 3/5 at OBS. In the wake of the bidding, Amr Zedan, who purchased the colt on the recommendation of his trainer, Bob Baffert, and bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, was quoted in TDN as saying: "These horses are difficult to come by. He ticked all the boxes. He was a very precocious Gun Runner with a great pedigree. And more importantly, if you have someone like Mr. [Bob] Baffert in your corner, that gives you the courage and the guts to just go after quality. And you'll know they are in the best hands to turn them into champions. This one is for the team: Donato and obviously Bob and his ability to turn them into champions. So if you have the great team, the great training, the rest is easy. Was he pricey? Yes. But quality dictates price. So I never hesitated.” The hyperbole, and boilerplate optimism, are understandable, as even owners with very deep pockets prefer not to dwell on their inevitably long lists of expensive failures. But Zedan and their team have also enjoyed a number of high-profile successes, including Taiba, another Gun Runner colt, which won the Santa Anita Derby and the Malibu, both Grade I, before being retired to stud. Lanni, who has signed for at least some of Zedan's other good horses, was quoted as saying: "This is what the boss [Baffert] wanted and what Amr wanted. Gun Runner is a tremendous stallion and he worked really good and galloped out good. He did everything you want one to do.” Again, boilerplate, and if one were to take the reactions of the owner and agent at face value, it would be easy to arrive at the conclusion that the horse had no faults. But that would be naïve. So, let's first take a look at Brant's pedigree. Gun Runner is a "top" sire, and well-capable of getting high-class runners. It's a bit too early to fully judge him as a source of durability, but excluding his current crop of 2yos, his runners are only averaging 10 career starts. That number will rise, but likely not enough to reach, let alone exceed the contemporary industry average of ~15. In other words, though he himself raced 19 times, and won his swan song (the Pegasus World Cup) at five, there is no evidence to suggest that he is likely to eventually prove to be a particular source of durability. Brant's dam, Tynan, raced 13 times, and he is her first registered foal. His second dam, Pappascat, has produced at least five foals to have raced, and while only one has reached 20 starts, four of the five raced at least 12 times, which by today's degraded standards, isn't so bad. The fact that the coat color inherited by Brant, and his dam, can be traced to a notably unsound influence, Unbridled's Song, may or may not be meaningful. But I wouldn't ignore it as a potentially worrying connection. Brant's dam-sire, Liam’s Map, was lightly raced himself, and both his sire (US) and dam have poor records in terms of durability. As a sire, he has thus far produced numbers similar to Gun Runner. So while Brant's first two dams promise more than many that I have come across in similar assessments, and his sire displayed durability on the track, his overall pedigree suggests average durability at best. And what about the word that Mr. Zedan used twice in the above quote – "quality"? Well, Curlin is a quality sire, but in terms of bottom-line production, it leaves a lot to be desired. That's not to say that there are no good runners to be found, in fact the closely related Pappacap, under Brant's second-dam, was a Gr. III winner, and twice Grade I placed. However, through Brant's first six dams at least, I believe there to be just a single Grade I winner, Al Qasr, a Champion stayer in Peru, which appears under his fourth-dam. That is not, by any reasonable definition, a strong bottom-line, although it is fair to say that Brant's first dam is unproven. *** What might be learned from Brant's debut race? Everyone can see that he ran fast, and was much the best of that field, but I would say that there were some nuanced aspects of his performance that were both interesting, and worrying. Those nuances relate to his action, as viewed both through the pan shot, and head-on. Watching the basic (pan) view, Brant appears to display some "knee action". It isn't extreme, but also isn't the type of action that ideally suits dirt runners, and I wouldn't say that the colt appears totally comfortable. Here's a brief, related post on knee action, for reference: Then, we have the (embedded) head-on view, in which Brant displays seriously distorted action in his near-fore (left front leg; right when viewed head-on). It's a fairly extreme example of what is called "winging", and for a number of reasons, does not bode well for durability. Such action is never desirable, and is typically related to certain foreleg conformation flaws, which may include an offset knee, and/or toeing in or out, etc. Note also that under typical American racing conditions (i.e. tightly turning, left-handed tracks), the left front leg is subjected to the greatest torque, which amplifies the potential for injury. It should go without saying that there are occasional anomalies, horses with poor action that remain sound despite such flaws. But they are the exceptions, and it is not uncommon to find abbreviated careers associated with such action. For further reference, here is a link to a closely related post that I wrote after a filly named Amor Fati broke her maiden in eye-catching style in February of 2024. She has made just one further start, and hasn't recorded a work over the past 15 months. What's interesting about Brant is that there are two separate issues relating to his action, and that the some obvious mitigating steps that could have been, or should be taken, in efforts to keep him sound, were not, and are unlikely to ever be taken. First, with regard to his knee action, keep in mind that it is a characteristic that is more typically associated with turf horses. And guess what? Brant's dam was a turf horse. His second-dam was also at her best on turf, and was Gr. II placed on that surface. Also, in some respects, he physically resembles that female line more than his sire. Of course no one who spends millions on a horse that breezed exceptionally fast at a 2yo sale would be thinking "turf", given that the commercial market, and stakes schedules greatly favor dirt runners. But at the same time, it would be a mistake to assume that a fast breeze at OBS necessarily indicates that a given horse will be best suited to dirt. I say that partly because the OBS track features an all-weather surface called "Safetrack", which is far from being identical to dirt racing surfaces. While countless horses have gone through those sales and excelled on dirt, it should never been taken for granted that it will be a preference. And to further flesh out the point, take a look at Brant's breeze video through this link (his pedigree page can also be seen): Despite being rushed to cover a furlong much faster than he ever will again, I would say that he looks smoother, and displays slightly less knee action than in his recent debut race. Why? Could it be, perhaps, because he would prove more comfortable on turf and/or synthetic tracks, than dirt surfaces? Given how he ran first out, this is purely an academic point, as there is virtually no chance that his connections would consider switching surfaces, unless his form on dirt were to deteriorate badly. The second, more important point, relates to Brant's distorted action. I can't find a head-on conformation photo of the colt, but would be very surprised if he does not display flaws in his near-fore. Even in the very unlikely event that the leg were to appear correct, such distorted action would have been on display at the sale, as well as in pre-training at Eddie Woods' farm. And it defies belief that experienced horsemen who were prepared to purchase an extremely expensive horse for an important client would not have covered that base. Which in turn begs two important questions. First, why recommend the purchase of a very expensive horse, no matter how fast, that has yet to race, and displays such distorted action? Secondly, why choose to give such a horse to a trainer whose style and history suggest that injury risk would likely be amplified, rather than mitigated? The answers to those questions help to illuminate why the breed-to-sell paradigm is so insidious. As long as breeders and stud farms are willing to overpay for stallion prospects, and turn blind eyes to conformation defects, distorted action, lack of durability, and modest female families, the connections of horses like Brant need only hope that they hold together long enough to win one or two big races, enabling them cash in. These are the number of career starts made by Zedan's previous best (and expensive) male runners: 9 Arabian Lion 6 Arabian Knight 9 Muth 10 Medina Spirit 11 Hejazi And as long as the AGSC (American Graded Stakes Committee) continues to enable the paradigm through its dishonest KY Derby "prep" Grade I designations, the ultimately damaging feedback loop will likely continue. The answer to the second question is closely entwined, and should be obvious. For all of his faults as a trainer, Baffert has long produced results in stakes races that lead to valuable stud careers, so owners who wish to play the breed-to-sell game consider him to be a logical choice. Of course Baffert and Zedan are hardly alone in supporting the dubious paradigm. But that a horse like Brant could bring millions at a sale, and be given to a trainer who trains very hard, and has compiled a very poor safety record, underscores the extreme degree to which the value of durability has been marginalized by the industry. One final note, and it's a genuine qualification that I always make when producing this type of post, I hope that Brant will enjoy a long, injury-free career. But if I were a betting man...](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1949810344609665305/amplify_video_thumb/1949807748373262336/img/UxdtjUDx3PoP2gwC.jpg)
![Claude CodeにMiniMax H3のプロンプトを丸投げしたら、この動画ができました😃 Claude Codeに投げたプロンプト↓ ------------------- MiniMax H3を使ってモーショングラフィックスをバリバリ使った15秒のCMを作りたい。 どんな内容が良いと思う？ 条件は以下 ・モーショングラフィックスを多用 ・人物も登場させる（実写・アニメーションは問わない） ・アスペクト比は16:9 ------------------- すると、Claude Codeが3つCM案を提案。 そのうちの1つを選んだら↓のプロンプトができました。 MiniMax H3を利用したツールはMiniMax Design。 #MiniMaxH3 on #MiniMaxDesign Claude Codeが作ったMiniMax H3向けのプロンプト↓ ---------------------- integrated_multimodal_description: 2D-animated, a bold graphic-design motion-graphics commercial in 16:9 with exactly 13 distinct cuts at 24fps. This film is 85% kinetic graphic design and 15% character action: giant kinetic Japanese typography, hard-edged flat shapes, split screens, halftone, speed lines, torn-paper reveals and shutter flashes. Palette, strictly four colors: fluorescent orange, deep black, off-white, silver grey. The recurring character is a young anime street dancer with a black chin-length bob and blunt bangs, sharp confident eyes, an oversized off-white track jacket with fluorescent-orange sleeve stripes, black cargo shorts, and chunky white sneakers with fluorescent-orange lines. Preserve her exact face, proportions, hairstyle, outfit, materials and colors throughout; never redesign her. Every graphic element moves fast and snaps hard on the beat. [Shot 1] On a deep black field, a massive off-white circle slams into frame left of center, then two fluorescent-orange bars wipe across the upper and lower thirds, then the Japanese kanji "烈" builds itself stroke by stroke in off-white at the center until it is complete. The camera shakes slightly with small amplitude at fast speed on each impact. [Shot 2] At 00:01.000, the camera cuts to an off-white field where four black squares rotate into the center one at a time. The largest square opens as a porthole revealing an extreme close-up of the dancer's ice-sharp eye glancing up, then a red-and-cyan split flash tears across the edges and the squares shatter into flat shards. The camera pushes in with small amplitude at fast speed. [Shot 3] At 00:02.000, the camera cuts to an off-white field filled by an enormous black kanji "烈". The dancer sprints in from frame left, power-slides along the baseline of the typography, and fluorescent-orange ink splatter trails behind her as speed lines streak past. The camera trucks left with large amplitude at fast speed. The kanji stays fully readable before she crosses in front of it. [Shot 4] At 00:03.100, the camera cuts to a vertical triptych of fluorescent-orange, deep black and off-white panels. Her flat silhouette appears in each panel in stroboscopic freeze, one after another — takeoff, mid-air tuck, landing — while giant vertical silver text "全速" scrolls upward behind the panels. Static shot. [Shot 5] At 00:04.000, the camera cuts to a black field where a giant tilted ring of fluorescent-orange Japanese characters reading "止マルナ" rotates. The dancer leaps through the center of the ring, spins once in mid-air, and the characters break off and scatter outward as flat shards. The camera arcs with large amplitude at fast speed, then snap-zooms onto her confident face. [Shot 6] At 00:05.100, the camera cuts to a clean off-white editorial card holding a huge black kanji "跳" with one orange diagonal slash. She vaults over the word itself, plants her palm on its left radical, the character compresses like a spring under her hand, then rebounds as her legs whip across the frame. Static shot. [Shot 7] At 00:06.000, the camera cuts to a full fluorescent-orange field crossed by one thick black diagonal stripe. She back-flips along the stripe in three stroboscopic ghost frames tinted black, off-white and silver grey, while a large outlined kanji "回" rotates 180 degrees in sync with her rotation. The camera rolls clockwise with small amplitude at fast speed. [Shot 8] At 00:07.000, the camera cuts to an off-white field with a hard black band. Four bold black kanji slam in one at a time at different scales and angles — "速", then "鋭", then "静", then "烈" — each landing with a white shutter flash and an orange impact mark, while she slides on her knees across the foreground, jacket flaring. The camera shakes slightly with small amplitude at fast speed. [Shot 9] At 00:08.000, the camera cuts to a black frame where a white wireframe grid tilts away in 3D. She runs up the grid like a wall, kicks off it, and hangs frozen in mid-air as a fluorescent-orange circle stamps around her pose like a target lock with silver UI brackets and tick marks. The camera tilts up with small amplitude at slow speed. [Shot 10] At 00:09.000, the freeze releases and the camera cuts to layered flat-color panes stacked toward the lens. She dives straight at the camera, the panes tear open one at a time like thick paper, and each tear reveals a larger portion of the black kanji "烈" behind, before her sneaker wipes across the foreground. The camera pulls out with large amplitude at fast speed. [Shot 11] At 00:10.100, the camera cuts to a rapid-fire montage of four full-screen graphic posters of her in different action poses — mid-flip, sliding, landing, hands in pockets — snapping past with hard cuts, each with an oversized silver number 01 to 04, a black barcode strip and thick diagonal slashes. Static shot. [Shot 12] At 00:11.100, the camera cuts to a clean off-white cyclorama for the hero moment. She lands a final backflip dead center in slow motion, straightens with both hands in her pockets, and a shockwave of concentric fluorescent-orange rings blasts outward from her feet carrying shattered fragments of the kanji "烈" with it, then the frame overexposes toward white. The camera pushes in with small amplitude at slow speed. [Shot 13] At 00:13.000, the camera cuts to the final identity card on a pale off-white field. An enormous black kanji "烈" dominates the frame with translucent orange rings and thin technical arcs behind it, the silver-grey word "RETSU" sits directly beneath the kanji, and she stands relaxed at the lower center overlapping the bottom of the strokes with her jacket rippling. One thin orange pulse sweeps horizontally through the typography and holds cleanly until exactly 15.000 seconds. Static shot. Editing: extremely aggressive rhythm — hard cuts on every beat, graphic matches, whip pans, snap zooms, stroboscopic freezes, foreground wipes, split flashes and impact shakes. Every cut must feel compositionally different. All Japanese typography is always fully readable before the character overlaps it. No weapons, no combat, no fire, no explosions; all energy comes from motion design, ink, torn paper, wind and her street-dance athleticism. No photorealism, no 3D rendering, no gradients, no browser interface, no player controls, no subtitles, no captions, and no text other than the Japanese characters named above. Exactly 13 cuts. overall_soundscape: Sneaker impacts, knee slides and landings hit hard against a clean room tone. Ink splatters burst, thick paper tears open, and flat panels shatter like glass. Sharp whooshes carry the color wipes and typography slams, with small shutter clicks on each flash. No dialogue. non_diegetic_music: An original 15-second drum-heavy breakbeat with a deep sub bass, hard snare hits, risers and glitch fills locked to every cut. Begin with a single impact, build tightly through the middle, peak at the landing at 00:11.100, and end with a cold electronic logo sting that resolves at 15.000 seconds.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2090306302966919515/amplify_video_thumb/2090304831605137408/img/zF64xYqkGN14GBEY.jpg)