Janet was a good racemare. She was highweight because she was a dual Grade 1 winner, knocking off Tranquility Lake in the Ramona and Yellow Ribbon. The loss at Bay Meadows on the surface may have been embarrassing, but the winner of that race was a first-time Euro import for Gary Tanaka and Bobby Frankel named Peu a Peu. In her only other start in the US, which came about a week before the New York Handicap, Peu a Peu nearly ran down the monster turf mare Astra in a Grade 1 at Hollywood.

Curiously, Janet was shipped to NY 3 times in her career, all to no avail. She caught bad weather trying the Sheepshead Bay, which was transfered to the main track (she was a modest 3rd). She got crushed in the Diana at Saratoga in between her Grade 1 wins in CA. She only made a couple of more starts after the New York. Earned a $1 million.

It's a shame that shipping in for Royal Ascot wasn't in vogue when he was in his prime.

He was no Hyper.

At this point, shouldn't there be about 10 claims in for any Chad Brown-trained Ramsey horse debuting in a maiden claimer on the grass?

Didn't the horse that nearly knocked off his Euro import in the Manhattan start off that way?

Yep, Papaw Bodie was claimed for 50k last October from Paul McGee, who took over his training from Linda Rice, who claimed him for 25k in October 2010 at Belmont.

He has made roughly 350k since the claim. Might have been enough to cover the shipping for Hyper and Big Blue Kitten to Ascot.

Beautiful But Blue is from the immediate family of Ausable Chasm.

I'm always a few days behind watching replays, but I just got around to watching the Mother Goose. What an eyesore of a race that was.:wf

Hey Kev, have you heard? Kennedy has been shot....................:zz:

Shot? I thought he had Cirrhosis.