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[freddymo]

Originally Posted by taxicab

Beholder ran a much better race ?
Beholder was a whisker better then Songbird.......that's it.
You're also assuming Stellar Wind was going to run a giant race.
If she breaks slow for a barn that is winless (with a large sample) in BC races that's her mistake.
Songbird doesn't make mistakes.
Songbird is a seven time Grade 1 winner @ distances ranging from 7 to 10 furlongs at DMR/KEEN/SA/SAR(twice)/PARX,she's also a soon to be two time Eclipse award winner.
When a horse puts up that kind of resume and drops a photo by a hair to a first ballot HOF mare,it solidifies her reputation as a freak.
BTW.....
Here's the splits from the Distaff & Classic......
The Songbird fractions seem to be in the same neighborhood as Chrome.
And Chrome wasn't hooked the entire stretch.
Distaff: 23.32/47.16/111.14/136.15/149.20
Classic: 23.28/47.15/110.96/135.72/200.11

You dont get a better set up in a BC Distaff, she ran very well, how couldnt she have? It's ok to be objective and not knock a wonderful horse. She fired no doubt. She is suppose to win comfortably, she didnt face Beholder at her very best which was electric stuff in Pac Classic. I can tell you for sure the Rachel Alexander I saw gallop in Haskel and run her guts out in Preakness and Woodward would have draw off by 4 or 5 after that set up. Does that REMOTELY detract from Songbird, not to me!