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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
Could you imagine these geniuses if they owned Affirmed, when that colt lost the Grade 2 Malibu and San Fernando to start what was essentially his 4yo campaign?
Asmussen basically said there's nothing wrong with her. She hasn't been dominant as was expected to start the year, but that doesn't mean she is no longer competitive.
She has a long way to go before being lumped in the same as the 4yo versions of Winning Colors or Ajina or Proud Spell.
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I agree, and also agree with Jack that it would be nice to let her run the way she runs best... free-wheeling. If you want to use performance figures as a gauge, looking at her sheet (Thoro-Graph) shows she's right in line with her efforts from last year with only the Oaks (-4.5) and Haskell (-4.0) earning bigger figs than what she's run this year (-1.0 first back & -1.5 last). What she hasn't done is show 'typical' forward progress as a 4yo, but she was abnormally fast for a 3yo filly to start with... (as fast as any in the game's modern history in fact). But notably, her 2 efforts this year are 'faster' on Thoro-Graph than her Woodward, Preakness and Fantasy and on a par with her Mother Goose.
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