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Originally Posted by NTamm1215
The fillies are far from a deep group, but her individual performances have been very solid.
You really think the Wood this year was better than any of the last four runnings? The performance of the winner this year was vastly inferior to that of the last four winners. The field quality was horrible. The SA Derby is a tough one to compare because this was the first running on dirt in four years. This year's Fla Derby was overrated before and after. It compares VERY poorly to the 2008 and 2009 runnings and I don't think Dialed In ran any better than Ice Box did last year.
The preps have been atrocious. If the only one we can be mildly excited about is a SA Derby where a distance-challenged son of Bwana Charlie was run down by a last out maiden winner then that's not saying much IMO.
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Yeah, I'll concede all that. However, I still think that the winner of the SA Derby was probably somewhat better than your average recent maiden winner. Certainly, he's got more upside at this point than Tiago did. To me, I guess I'm trying to say, that when PP got hurt, I expected that race to be horrific. My expectations were exceeded.
Dialed In was definitely better than Ice Box to me.
He has way more upside.