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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
You really need to see a speed figure to know her workman like wins over an allowance horse like Future Pretense were lackluster performances?
You really need to see a speed figure to see that going head-to-head with Charismatic through wicked fractions in a 12 furlong race like the Belmont is a taxing thing for a 3yo filly?
Sky Beauty had over a month between the CCAO and Alabama - and that was back in the 90's when over a month was like too much time between starts.
Sorry but everything in racing cannot be reduced to lame excuses that horseman use to explain away subpar performance ... though I can assure you that Allen Jerkens never would say that 5 weeks wasn't enough time between races.
How laughably stupid.
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Look, all I said to start this discussion was to observe that Sky Beauty was an exhausted horse the day she won the Alabama. I don't need a speed figure to tell me anything. I'm not the one quoting them like they are some sort of gospel truth. If you feel compelled to use a speed figure to justify your opinion or say that the performance was subpar, that's your prerogative. And it's fine by me. I simply thought that Sky Beauty showed a lot of heart and class when she won the Alabama. Nothing more, nothing less.
The "laughably stupid" comment in this thread was your statement that SBD was "more exhausted" in the Alabama because she had run more times over more race tracks. No reasonable person in attendance at Saratoga for either filly's Alabama (and I was there both days) would have said that Silverbulletday was more exhausted in the Alabama. Later that fall, SBD probably was exhausted, as evidenced by her dismal performance behind Beautiful Pleasure in the BC Distaff, but not at Saratoga.