3 year old filly Eclipse?

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I came away with a different impression of that race than you did.

I've never been a believer that trailing the field through soft fractions and having to come around was an advantage.

I didn't think it was a conclusive win at all for PS - and certainly MN's win in their prior meeting was very inconclusive because of real bad trips... where I thought the Alabama was just a race where the bum Little Belle had the dreamiest of trips and PS had a slight tactical advantage on MN.

That's a fair assesment. It kind of depends on how much talent you think Little Belle has (I would say she has some) and whether or not you think Music Note needs a bit of pace up front to do her best running. Personally, I get the impression that she could pretty much be spotted anywhere early in a race.

Music Note seemed to get more or less the same trip she did in both the prior CCA Oaks and the subsequent Gazelle, races that she demolished. Visually, she looked like she'd run right by Proud Spell, but didn't for whatever reason.