It is way too soon to put Rags to Riches up in this stratosphere. There are so many great mares you have not included -Pretty Polly, Gallorette, Shuvee, Drumtop among them - who regularly beat up on males of several generations, not just their own. Not to mention Makybe Diva and Sunline just recently from Down Under.
Rags to Riches is the best 3yo filly we've seen since Go for Wand, maybe since Ruffian. I'll go as far as to say that.
By the way, if you include Genuine Risk, why not Bold 'n Determined, who beat GR on the square when they met in the Maskette H? BnD had won the CCA Oaks, Acorn, Santa Susana (aka SA Oaks), etc. and would go on to win the Spinster against her elders.
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