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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Yeah Winning Colors Santa Anita Derby got nothing out of the Santa Anita Derby. Winning by 12 in 147 told us nothing about her. These fillies aren't dominating their division. If WC had run in the oaks that year she would have been 2-5. She was clearly the best filly and her SA Derby showed her to be tons better than the CA males and at least on par with the other colts. Not so with these 2.
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I didn't say she got nothing out of the race. I said that I don't think we learned anything about her from the race. I said that I don't think that the sex of the competition in the SA Derby was of any significance. I said that she was challenged more in the filly races against Goodbye Halo than she was in the SA Derby. If her SA Derby showed her to be tons better than the CA males, then perhaps Goodbye Halo was a Derby quality filly too because judging by her relation to WC, she was the second-best 3yo in CA that year. I think perhaps Eight Belles hasn't been dominating her division on appearance is because she's been facing some pretty decent fillies. I think Pure Clan is better than anything she would have faced in the Arkansas Derby.
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