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06-23-2010, 04:04 PM
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Also:
Lite Light leading up to CCA Oaks Excellent Meeting up to the Princess Silverbulletday up the Gazelle 
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06-23-2010, 04:12 PM
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No luck with Lite Light and EM .. but here are SBD and Lakeway...
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06-23-2010, 04:14 PM
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Gonna need:
Flawlessly (I think it's only 5 starts) Hollywood Wildcat (maybe start with the Azalea)
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06-23-2010, 04:27 PM
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HW's Azalea wasn't much but she had 5 nice ones after that.... 
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06-23-2010, 04:34 PM
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Thanks.
No pressure, but: Yanks Music (I think you posted it elsewhere) Go For Wand Jostle
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06-23-2010, 04:39 PM
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I'm pretty sure I have them - will add tonight. GFW was a little before me - but she obviously ran 5 huge ones in a row in between the Oaks loss and BC breakdown.
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06-23-2010, 05:03 PM
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Getting back to Xtra Heat ... without a doubt the one race she ran that impressed me the most was not any of her 25 stakes wins .. nor was it the 2nd place finish against a brutally tough group of males in the BC Sprint.
For me - It was her defeat in the Test. She hooked a super expensive 2yo sales horse in Harmony Lodge - a horse who just missed a track record going 5.5f at Saratoga in her career debut. The two of them battled through a 44 flat over a racetrack that - on that day - such a fraction was impossible to believe going 7fs. Harmony Lodge ran five times at Saratoga in her career - and her best performance might not be the day she won her Grade 1 - it might not be the day she just missed a really old track record in her debut - it was probably the day she got beat 39 lengths and ran a 21 Beyer figure .. after running a pace figure that was about a 150. She showed her true raw speed that day.  To give you an even better idea about how killer that pace was in the Test .. Secret Liason was one of the fastest 3yo filly sprinters in speed crazy So. Cal - and she couldn't even sniff that pace from 3rd. The pace causing her to get beat 50+ lengths and run a -0 Beyer.  For an even better idea of how fast the pace was in the Test .. future champion sprinter speedball Orientate broke his maiden going 6f that day. He was loose on the lead going 6f through a 45 2/5th half .. on my pace numbers for Saratoga .. he went 50 points slower to the half than the Test pacesetter!  I think for a 3yo filly to survive the pace and quality pressure that Xtra Heat did that day - fight Victory Ride as hard as she did when she came to her - and still run a triple digit final time figure at 7fs .. it was a remarkable effort. Probably more remarkable than stringing together 3 straight Beyers in the 117-to-120 range like she did right after that.
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06-23-2010, 04:14 PM
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9 starts before the BC....racing is comical now
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"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"...Voltaire
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06-23-2010, 04:18 PM
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06-23-2010, 09:56 PM
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Lakeways 2nd lifetime start, which is the first race you listed of hers, was freakin awesome. Truly one of the most unbelievable performances I've witnessed, when you consider all the circumstances.
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06-23-2010, 10:00 PM
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I've posted her before, but one must mention again the super filly Akinemod.
In her sixth start of this run she had, she ran something like a 119 going long for the first time.  And yeah, I know, those last 2 were technically as a 4yo, but barely, and not really.
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06-23-2010, 04:15 PM
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06-27-2010, 05:40 PM
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 Here's the filly that Indian Charlie's old board nemisis compared to Alydar back in the day. She was coupled with Generally Challenged as the 9/2 favorite in the Derby betting over - I believe - Stephen Got Even.
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06-27-2010, 06:02 PM
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The never to be forgotten - only to pretty much be forgotten Eight Belles ...
 She sucked as a 2-year-old and something turned her around at age 3 - where she was a pretty beastly 3yo filly. Shame she wasn't around - she could have done a lot of damage against these utterly pathetic older male divisions of the last few years.
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06-27-2010, 06:03 PM
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"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"...Voltaire
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06-27-2010, 06:30 PM
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06-27-2010, 06:12 PM
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Rags To Riches:
 An Ap Indy out of a half to Jazil going 5.5fs in June of her 2yo season!! That 62 Beyer should be enough to put her in the Hall of Fame alone considering her pedigree. I don't think i've ever seen a worse classy pedigree for that type of race. She was about 6 wide on both turns in the Grade 1 Las Virgines - and still got up at a mile in her first route try and her first try against winners. Great performance despite the weak figure.
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06-27-2010, 06:28 PM
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Blushing KD:
 Last 7 races of the brilliant ones life. Beat males by 20 lengths under a full nelson hold to start off 3yo season ... took Tomisue's Delight apart at FG a couple times ... destroyed Valid Bonnet and Ajina at OP ... easily won a deep KY Oaks that included Sharp Cat from the West and Glitter Woman from the East. Made the bridgejumpers take it up the butt in a total non-effort as the 1/9 favorite in the Black Eyed Susan .. romped at MTH to end her career.
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06-27-2010, 07:25 PM
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Also, as you suggest, that Las Virgenes trip was one of the more infamous rides by Garrett Gomez. It was almost as if he was trying to get her beat. And he was whining he lost the mount on her in the Belmont because he foolishly (and greedily) snatched up Hard Spun. He was lucky to have a mount at all (all the converse can't be said for Hard Spun--who could have used just about anyone else aboard and had a better go of it).
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