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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
you MUST be employed by the NTRA to come up with this responce..
How exactly is Rachel overhyped??
and the NTRA is worthless. Justindew's (the real Justin Dew by the way) initial post was spot on.
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Rachel is overhyped in the sense that the sport marketed her too hard considering they got a total of 3 real races out of her and only 1 was on national televion.
NTRA is not worthless either. Without them you would get absolutely no promotion at all. It is the fault of state legislatures that the sport is not marketed well.
Back to Rachel, if you look at her races she really did never take on a great horse. I think you can make the argument that there are 3 fillies/mares that would give her a run for her money and she did not race against any of them.
I am fairly certain Icon Project would beat her in a 10f race. The Canadian filly is also very dangerous and you have Zenyatta. Rachel would have lost if she kept running this year. She is much like Curlin was at the age of 4. A horse that was going backwards going into the fall, probably due to a difficult schedule. You have to race in the fall if you want to be considered a great horse. The fall is when 3yr olds mature and when many top older horses target their big race. Rachel was well managed but I suspect she would have been beaten by any 1 of the 3 fillies/mares in the fall. I don't think she would have even been competitive with Icon Project in a 10f race.