Winning Colors vs. Rags to Riches

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i can't imagine rags finishing within daylight of personal ensign. or winning colors for that matter.

I actually think Indian Charlie put it best when he pretty much alluded to Rags's incomplete resume. For those of us who actually saw Winning Colors race, and have real perspective, there is really no comparison.

However, if you were to choose one for the Temple Gwathany then perhaps Rags to Riches would be the right horse. Perhaps.

[miraja2]

I always think it is a shame that Goodbye Halo never gets mentioned in in these kind of threads. She was from the same crop as Winning Colors, and while WC certainly has to be considered the best 3yo filly from that year, Goodbye Halo was a hell of a filly and a 7-time G1 winner.
If you haven't watched the famous '88 Distaff in awhile, check it out on youtube. That race wasn't simply a 2-horse finish by any means.

I think I might take her over Rags as well.

[blackthroatedwind]

Comparing Rags to Riches to many of the wonderful fillies and mares from past years is a typical myopic view you see on the internet from people who simply don't even know about the past.

What if Rags to Riches was a 3YO in 1990?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Comparing Rags to Riches to many of the wonderful fillies and mares from past years is a typical myopic view you see on the internet from people who simply don't even know about the past.

What if Rags to Riches was a 3YO in 1990?

good point.


1990- she would be an also ran that year as well....

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I always think it is a shame that Goodbye Halo never gets mentioned in in these kind of threads. She was from the same crop as Winning Colors, and while WC certainly has to be considered the best 3yo filly from that year, Goodbye Halo was a hell of a filly and a 7-time G1 winner.
If you haven't watched the famous '88 Distaff in awhile, check it out on youtube. That race wasn't simply a 2-horse finish by any means.

Yep, exactly!

--Dunbar

[Cajungator26]

Winning Colors. I don't see how there could be an argument against that.