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She Would The Best Filly of All-Time 2 3.85%
She Would Have The Best Three Consecutive Race By A Filly 21 40.38%
All Of The Above 6 11.54%
None Of The Above 23 44.23%
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Old 05-21-2009, 03:47 PM
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where would you rank her achievement?
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Old 05-21-2009, 03:48 PM
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Old 05-21-2009, 03:52 PM
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Greatest Horsie EVAH!
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I'm going with..

"She Would The Best HORSE of All-Time"
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I'm going with..

"She Would The Best HORSE of All-Time"

LOL!
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Old 05-21-2009, 05:44 PM
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You're nuts.
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Old 05-21-2009, 06:29 PM
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Well, she'd clearly be the best 3YO filly since Go For Wand (I think she is already, however). How much beyond that you'd want to go is another issue.

I love a horse that takes a race by the throat, which is what she does.
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Best horse named Rachel
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Old 05-21-2009, 08:28 PM
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Well, she'd clearly be the best 3YO filly since Go For Wand (I think she is already, however). How much beyond that you'd want to go is another issue.

I love a horse that takes a race by the throat, which is what she does.
I think the great three fillies from 94(?), Inside Information, Lakeway and Sardula, all would have run RA into the ground.

Well, that might be too strong, but I'd still take those three.
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You're nuts.
As opposed to the people trying to rank her before the race has even been run? Can you imagine this poll before Secretariat ran his Belmont? If Rachel gets loose on the lead setting fractions of 1:18 and then just holds off Mine that Bird by a nose it will be incredibly unimpressive. If Rachel wins by 31 lengths she'll be an all time great. To try and rank a horse on the assumption that they win a race without knowing anything about the actual dynamics of the race is pretty ridiculous.
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Old 05-22-2009, 12:09 AM
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As opposed to the people trying to rank her before the race has even been run? Can you imagine this poll before Secretariat ran his Belmont? If Rachel gets loose on the lead setting fractions of 1:18 and then just holds off Mine that Bird by a nose it will be incredibly unimpressive. If Rachel wins by 31 lengths she'll be an all time great. To try and rank a horse on the assumption that they win a race without knowing anything about the actual dynamics of the race is pretty ridiculous.
I know. I was making fun of the poll, not you. My initial response to myself when I read the poll was "42".

Seven seemed arbitrary enough.
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