[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I'm not expecting them to run like the best in the game. Allowances should be given for the fact that they are 3yo fillies and for the fact that it was only her third career start. That's why I understand that she has a lot of room to improve and will likely be even better. My analysis wasn't on how good she is or can be though. It was simply on that one race. I didn't see it as special. The way most of the people described it, u would have thought she was pulling a Silky Sullivan coming down the lane. The truth of the matter is that whether she was running 11 3/5, 12 4/5 or 19, she was still decelerating down the lane. Her last 8th was slower than the one before it. I just didn't see this great acceleration that others saw. I watched that horse Christmas Kid win the Davona Dale the other day at Gulfstream. I know, different tracks, different scenarios. But I don't see anyone raving about her. Her finishing time, not the final time of the race, but final quarter mile, was nearly identical to what Rags did, despite the fact that she ran faster earlier. I felt like the performances of Baroness Thatcher and Runway Rosie, while not taking away from what Rags did, helped create an optical illusion that made it look better.

Did you perhaps see anything special today? Or was this another optical illusion? Everyone and their mother knew that the Las Virgenes effort was much the best that day because of how extremely wide she raced. Her sheet number was huge.