Country Star

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Originally Posted by King Glorious

I know this was not for me but I wanted to give my answer to that anyway. I've always had a feeling that when people start their horses out on grass, it's often a sign that they haven't been too happy with what they've seen on dirt. Maybe that's silly but that's just something that's always been a part of my thinking. In America, dirt racing has always been king and while there have certainly been some great grass horses here, it often seems that quite a few of them go that route only after they've not lived up to expectations on the dirt.

I understand this philosophy. The only thing in my mind that causes me to wonder whether that is the case here is the general inability of MSW races going long, especially for fillies, to fill in New York. Perhaps Frankel ran her on turf because the distance of the race was more important to him than the surface over which it was conteted. Certainly, Country Star was well-bet first time out on turf, so she probably showed something somewhere in the morning. I'm not saying this is the case, but just offering another possible explanation.