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I think it was stupid for Crist to say this:
The idea that Rachel Alexandra "ducked" the Travers for an easier spot in the Woodward is preposterous. The seven 3-year-olds who ran in the Travers had combined to win 21 races, $3.5 million, and 10 graded stakes. The seven older horses she will face in the Woodward Saturday have won 44 races, $8.5 million, and 14 graded stakes. It's not a stellar group, but it's a better one than assembled for the Travers. Duh. They are all older horses and have had many more races. They've got 23 more wins but only four more graded stakes races. Comparing the fields in that way was completely stupid. I also think it was stupid for Beyer to say this: 3-year-old fillies who beat top males have usually tailed off after their great triumphs. Winning Colors captured the 1988 Kentucky Derby brilliantly and never won another race of consequence. Rags to Riches defeated Curlin in the 2007 Belmont Stakes, lost her next start, and never raced again. Is he really going to hold her losses to Personal Ensign and her brilliant Preakness effort against her and just hold on to the fact that she never won a big race again? He acts like she just fell off and was never the same and that's just not true. Didn't Seattle Slew lose his first start after the TC? Didn't Sunday Silence lose his first start after running in the TC races? Didn't Smarty Jones run in the TC, concluding with a very hard race in the Belmont and never run again? For Beyer to insinuate that it was because Rags ran against the boys that caused her to lose her next start and never run again is just, in a word, stupid.
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Personally, I do not want to see Rachel in the BC. If the BC was on dirt, of course I'd want to see her there and would expect her to be there. But with it being on junk track, I don't have the same expectations. I don't think it makes any sense at all to hold our dirt championships on a plastic track. So what if Rachel won on it in a low class race.
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Assuming it's the same Pro Ride surface as last year ... and assuming we are talking about a 10 furlong distance over the same Pro Ride as last year ... only a fool would think it's a 50/50 thing. More like 20/80 Factor in that Steve Asmussen trains her ... I'd MUCH rather have Johnny Velazquez, and his active 62 race losing streak, ride my turf router and take him 5 wide both turns than have Steve Asmussen train my synthetic horse. Factor in that the field is likely to include Rail Trip .. a horse who went wire-to-wire with a triple digit Beyer in his 6f career debut. All of a sudden a 20/80 thing starts looking like a 2/98 thing. |
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