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Old 08-26-2009, 02:50 PM
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She was 4 for 10 as a 3yo... it's a case where record hurts her. She totally fell apart after the Preakness.

I think RA will have the best looking 3yo season after all is said and done.

The problem is - she has yet to face easily the 2nd best 3yo filly (Careless Jewel) ... she hasn't faced either QR or IWR .. and they are the only 3yo males this year who aren't goats. The older males suck .. and the Zenyatta match up might not ever happen.

It's all through no fault of her own .. but it's pretty remarkable that a filly like Melair .. who's career lasted all of 10 weeks .. probably saw both better female and male competition than RA ever has.
.......i was there, she was a freak. i agree about her competiton......however,i with winning colors, what she did will never be done again, win the santa anita derby in HUGE fashion and come right back to win the derby against horses that make this years derby crop look like 10 claimers.
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Old 08-26-2009, 05:25 PM
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.......i was there, she was a freak. i agree about her competiton......however,i with winning colors, what she did will never be done again, win the santa anita derby in HUGE fashion and come right back to win the derby against horses that make this years derby crop look like 10 claimers.
And if Dwayne didn't have his huge ego, he would not have run in the Belmont and would have probably beaten Personal Ensign twice. Personal Ensign is the most overrated horse in the HOF
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Personal Ensign is the most overrated horse in the HOF
Even including Man O' War?
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Old 08-26-2009, 06:08 PM
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Even including Man O' War?
He was a piece of sh/t... Upset kicked his ass
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And if Dwayne didn't have his huge ego, he would not have run in the Belmont and would have probably beaten Personal Ensign twice. Personal Ensign is the most overrated horse in the HOF
How to take a legitimate question/opinion and turn it into one of the most ridiculous posts in history 101.
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How to take a legitimate question/opinion and turn it into one of the most ridiculous posts in history 101.
That's your opinion. Personal Ensign was the queen of picking her spots for 3 years....same as Goatzapper and Zenyatta
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Old 08-26-2009, 06:26 PM
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That's your opinion. Personal Ensign was the queen of picking her spots for 3 years....same as Goatzapper and Zenyatta
Right. They were picking her spots by running her in a grade one in her second career race. I know, it would have been tougher to run in an allowance but they took the easy way out. Then let's see, after having major surgery and coming back from that, they placed the 3yo Personal Ensign in the grade one Beldame at 10f against older mares. In her sixth career race. Then as a 4yo, they ran her in six grade one races, once against males in the Whitney and twice against the Derby winner. Yeah, that's really picking her spots. They also didn't scratch when they got to Churchill and the track came up wet.
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Old 08-27-2009, 02:41 PM
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its a tough crowd when personal ensign and zenyatta get ripped
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