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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
I think you're dressing it up a little too much as a miracle. Isn't Sassy Image like 5 for 6 at Churchill Downs? She was a multiple graded stakes winner at 2. She is a multiple stakes winning router, which often is an advantage on the cutback to 7f. If one could justify drawing a line through the Sabin (not sure if the breathing issue was reported before the race), then she certainly wasn't impossible. Having missed the vast majority of her 3yo season you would have had to also ignore her Beyer numbers. The allowance comeback would have supported the assumption that she progressed from 2 to 3 (to 4) the same way a normal stakes-caliber horse would.
You would have had to have faith to bet her, but you certainly didn't need divine intervention.
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Sassy Image was a complete and utter bum before her magic form reversal in the Humana Distaff.
One of the luckiest breaks I got all year is that I did not bring my Internet card with my laptop to the track that day ... because I would have lost every dollar betting against Sassy Image in the betting exchange that day ... and probably tossed my laptop across the clubhouse.
I remember someone came over to me after that race and told me they bet on Sassy Image and showed me a ticket and I was mad enough to choke them.