Early Breeders' Cup Projections...

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Originally Posted by Cunningham Racing

We'll see...once in a blue moon do fillies CONSISTENTLY defeat males....How many Arc winners have been female versus males?....Ahhh, not many - just like there have been a few female Derby winners but they are by far in the minority....Miesque was SPECIAL...Hell, maybe even a filly like Divine Proportions was special last year and may have been able to win the Mile had she not gotten hurt....Gorella is not that kind of mare...shes not...

Exciting and easy to cheer for, yes...but a Miesque she is not....

I can also name a claimer that won the Derby...it happens every now and again - but so does a solar eclipse....

I agree that females are usually up against it when facing males, but the Arc is a bad example to use.
its a race, b/c of its location on the racing calender that allows females to be very competitive.
I dont know the exact numbers,
but females have won the Arc over the past 3 decades or so at a fairly high rate.
here is a go-
Urban Sea(dam of Galileo)
Detroit(love the name)
Allez France
Three Troikas
San San
Gold River(beat April Run in that running of the Arc)
Akiyda(AK horse)
All Along

Im sure there are more and plenty more that have run well.

now,
that obviously does not mean they have been dominant or even on equal terms with the males, but
it does show that they can win at Longchamp.
certainly the top Euro femal middle distance runners are more competitive than their American counterparts have been in race like the BCC or JCGC.


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