Travers Buzz: Quality Road a yes..

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by tector

I think you have a problem with vocabulary.

She can only go where she goes--she can't control who is willing to show up. Your example requires the highly unlikely event that Team Zenyatta grows a pair. Obviously RA will show up for that if she is still healthy--but as you state it, she has no control over all that: the nutless bunch in CA have to act first. That is reacting and, in this case, reacting to imaginary events that are unlikely to happen. So while you are pondering what will be very likely counterfactuals, Team RA have to choose real races to run in--and they are choosing them very aggressively.

There's no problem with vocabulary just a difference of opinion as far as what's being aggresive. You happen to think that running in the Woodward is aggresive because it's open company. I happen to think that if she went to California and faced Zenyatta in the restricted Lady's Secret, that would be more aggresive. I don't deny that Rachel's people are going out of the box and being more aggresive than 99% of the people out there have been over the years, especially with a 3yo filly. I just fee that taking on the toughest challenges is being the most aggresive and despite the Woodward being an open race, I don't think it's the toughest challenge at all. To me, the Travers would have been 5x more aggresive and challenging than the Woodward.