Rags!!!!!!!!!!!!

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Amen on that!

I've never screamed so loud in my life... what a race by a great filly.

Well now we know, this isn't a very good filly, this is a great filly! First filly to EVER win the Belmont at 12 furlongs and she beat a very very good horse. Sure the 5 pounds helped but the stumble at the start and racing wide eliminated any weight advantage imo. The extremely slow pace didn't help her either! Now you have to wonder...could she have contended for the TC? Impossible to know but she proved she's as good as any 3yo today. Congrats to Pletcher...they talked about irony, what they didn't mention (at least while I was watching) was that Pletcher's mentor, DWL ended his long winless TC streak by winning with a filly! Great day for racing!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Well now we know, this isn't a very good filly, this is a great filly! First filly to EVER win the Belmont at 12 furlongs and she beat a very very good horse. Sure the 5 pounds helped but the stumble at the start and racing wide eliminated any weight advantage imo. The extremely slow pace didn't help her either! Now you have to wonder...could she have contended for the TC? Impossible to know but she proved she's as good as any 3yo today. Congrats to Pletcher...they talked about irony, what they didn't mention (at least while I was watching) was that Pletcher's mentor, DWL ended his long winless TC streak by winning with a filly! Great day for racing!

lukas' first tc win was with codex, when he beat the filly in the preakness.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Danzig

lukas' first tc win was with codex, when he beat the filly in the preakness.

Derby losing streak...my bad!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Derby losing streak...my bad!

yeah, i knew you meant derby! he told a nice story about taking gary stevens into the derby museum before the race that day, and then gary tries to give him a heart attack by gunning to the lead, but the grey had enough left to hold off forty niner at the end.

[sumitas]

i was shocked. she was fresher down the stretch and she was the best horse today.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Well now we know, this isn't a very good filly, this is a great filly! First filly to EVER win the Belmont at 12 furlongs and she beat a very very good horse. Sure the 5 pounds helped but the stumble at the start and racing wide eliminated any weight advantage imo. The extremely slow pace didn't help her either! Now you have to wonder...could she have contended for the TC? Impossible to know but she proved she's as good as any 3yo today. Congrats to Pletcher...they talked about irony, what they didn't mention (at least while I was watching) was that Pletcher's mentor, DWL ended his long winless TC streak by winning with a filly! Great day for racing!

Oh, and I was among those who questioned running a filly first time against the boys in the Belmont...I was dead wrong!!