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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Everyone who is stupid would have been a critic of that ride maybe.
She ran over the same track and distance as Pyro last time - and was denied the lead by the very speedy Miss Missle through fractions MUCH faster than the stake Pyro ran in - and IB beat Proud Spell that day.
Your only arguement is that rating her hard like that might settle her down in future races.
I think you know all speed horses aren't the same - and that ride enabled Proud Spell to sit the dreamiest trip she will ever have in her life. She was rating kindly with a target - just off of the rank and hard held Indian Blessing.
When a horse's only weapon is their sensational raw speed - and they are an undefeated Multiple Grade 1 winner - you don't try to strangle them and take away there only weapon.
It's not like Indian Blessing hasn't already beaten Proud Spell at multiple occasions at this distance.
Both horses get overbet off of this race - Indian Blessing gets overbet because she's a sprinter and everyone smart has always known it.
Proud Spell gets overbet off of this race because Garret Gomez gave her the trip of a lifetime - and he did it while riding another horse in the race.
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Thats BS because 3 year olds at this time of the year improve and catch up to the early maturing horses. Each races is not the same. Maybe her headstrong ways are already catching up to her physically. My arguement is that ANY horse that is a top horse that cant finish after a 48 half mile simply is not that good. The other filly gobbled her up after 7 furlongs. That is a bad sign. I simply dont think the horse is that good. Opening up 5 would have made no difference. There are 2 other races to use as a guage and she ran almost identical fractions for the 1st half mile. If there were a few more horses in there she may have been off the board. As a matter of fact I would not be surprised if she doesn run again for awhile.