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Old 10-12-2010, 08:51 PM
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Since you run away like a bitch in the sports forum after you're wrong about them every week, I have to find you elsewhere to hold you accountable.

Obviously if she's as good as you think she is, she should be competitive in the BC Mile. Or are you content just to marvel at her neck victories over C.S. Silk and Shared Account?
I don't know man....she's no Goldikova, but she's pretty good by 2010 standards. I don't think there is a whole lot separating her and Gio Ponti. She probably can't beat Goldikova, but I think she'll be competitive in the mile.
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Old 10-12-2010, 09:22 PM
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I don't know man....she's no Goldikova, but she's pretty good by 2010 standards. I don't think there is a whole lot separating her and Gio Ponti. She probably can't beat Goldikova, but I think she'll be competitive in the mile.
She's a typical also-ran in Europe who looks good against terrible U.S. turf fillies. In most other years, she'd be a nobody. Goldikova and Paco Boy would eat her lunch. I'd take Miss Keller over her too actually. There are a handful of three-year-old milers that would give her fits. It's been an extraordinarily bad year for U.S. turf fillies.
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Old 10-12-2010, 09:46 PM
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She's a typical also-ran in Europe who looks good against terrible U.S. turf fillies. In most other years, she'd be a nobody. Goldikova and Paco Boy would eat her lunch. I'd take Miss Keller over her too actually. There are a handful of three-year-old milers that would give her fits. It's been an extraordinarily bad year for U.S. turf fillies.
Are you sure we're talking about the same horse? She won a group 3 at Longchamp and was beaten 4 by Goldikova at Deauville. She beat males in the Kilroe. I guess we'll see in the Breeders Cup, but I don't think she's anywhere near the horse you are making her out to be.

By no means is she a superstar and they won't be making a plaque for her in Saratoga. I agree, she probably isn't good enough to beat Goldikova or Paco Boy. Who is in this country?
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Old 10-12-2010, 10:01 PM
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Are you sure we're talking about the same horse? She won a group 3 at Longchamp and was beaten 4 by Goldikova at Deauville. She beat males in the Kilroe. I guess we'll see in the Breeders Cup, but I don't think she's anywhere near the horse you are making her out to be.

By no means is she a superstar and they won't be making a plaque for her in Saratoga. I agree, she probably isn't good enough to beat Goldikova or Paco Boy. Who is in this country?
A Group 3? That makes her a legitimate Euro turf horse? She beat Fluke in the Kilroe. Male, female, hermaphrodite, he's just not very good. Ever a Friend was favored in that race FFS. She's beaten nobody this year.
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Old 10-12-2010, 10:13 PM
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A Group 3? That makes her a legitimate Euro turf horse? She beat Fluke in the Kilroe. Male, female, hermaphrodite, he's just not very good. Ever a Friend was favored in that race FFS. She's beaten nobody this year.
You said she was an also ran in Europe. She wasn't. Who are the supposed turf monsters here that she hasn't beaten? Again, she isn't the second coming of Miesque, but you're making it seem like she's a claimer. She's not.
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Old 10-12-2010, 10:21 PM
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You said she was an also ran in Europe. She wasn't. Who are the supposed turf monsters here that she hasn't beaten? Again, she isn't the second coming of Miesque, but you're making it seem like she's a claimer. She's not.
No, all I said is she's beaten nobody and she has no chance in the Mile. She didn't win anything significant in Europe either.
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Old 10-13-2010, 08:24 AM
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No, all I said is she's beaten nobody and she has no chance in the Mile. She didn't win anything significant in Europe either.
Is this really relevant? While the improved U.S. performances of horses that come over from Europe may be the function of class relief, for several, it is the addition of Lasix or the access to firmer ground than races are typically contested over in Europe. That's why in so many of the fall turf races the European form doesn't translate into equivalent American form, and we see the "other Euros" outperform their odds.
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Old 10-13-2010, 08:42 AM
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Are you sure we're talking about the same horse? She won a group 3 at Longchamp and was beaten 4 by Goldikova at Deauville. She beat males in the Kilroe. I guess we'll see in the Breeders Cup, but I don't think she's anywhere near the horse you are making her out to be.

By no means is she a superstar and they won't be making a plaque for her in Saratoga. I agree, she probably isn't good enough to beat Goldikova or Paco Boy. Who is in this country?
I told him all this, plus more.
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Old 10-13-2010, 01:58 PM
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I told him all this, plus more.
False. Your argument was basically 'durrrrr she wins Grade 1's so she must be the bestest hurrrrr'.
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False. Your argument was basically 'durrrrr she wins Grade 1's so she must be the bestest hurrrrr'.
I was going to just post a one word response, that starts with the letter 'Z', but I don't want that to be done to death.
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