Winning Colors vs. Rags to Riches

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Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

Talent and accomplishments. WC would have never beat Curlin in that Belmont Stakes. WC would have never beat Street Sense in the Derby. WC would have not been able to match Curlin and SS in the Preakness. I can see Rags to Riches being right there in all three. She would have been very close if not hitting the wire first. All of it is pure speculation really. I just like Rags to Riches better because I think that she is the better horse. I think that she would have beat winning colors every time. And if Rags to Riches can beat both Curlin and Hard Spun, then I think she could have won multiple other Grade Is against the boys if she would have ran in them.

i'll take cold, hard facts/results over speculation any day.

WC did hold her own in the preakness against the likes of forty niner and risen star, after defeating all comers in ky, and held her own vs the great personal ensign. i'll take that over rags one memorable race any day.
rags didn't run three straight races vs boys, winning two, and showing an incredible will in the third, just two weeks after a win vs those boys. winning colors finished third, unable to run her usual race, and with a horse running with ONE goal-to keep her from winning.

rags had a spring campaign nothing like winning colors.







"At 3:
Won Santa Anita Derby (G1), Kentucky Derby (G1), Santa Anita Oaks (G1), La Centinela S.
2nd Breeders' Cup Distaff S. (G1), Las Virgenes S. (G1), Maskette S. (G1)
3rd Preakness S. (G1)
4th Spinster S. (G1)
At 4:
Won Turfway Breeders' Cup S.
4th Maskette S. (G1)

1988 Eclipse Champion Three Year Old Filly.

One of three fillies to ever win the Kentucky Derby."

hell, winning colors has won more races than rags has even run in.


and could you explain the bold above? rags didn't even try, so what does speculation about what Winning Colors would have done last year have to do with rags? keep in mind, winning colors repeatedly took on the top three year old colts-with a win in the derby--not a no show like rags.