This year's 3 year olds based in CA

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Originally Posted by King Glorious

And I think Colonel John won the Travers. Rags to Riches won the Belmont. I don't know that you should completely throw out the form of California horses.

Rags to Riches, for whatever it's worth ( which is nothing ), is an East Coast horse that happened to spend a winter in California.

Just another example of how misguided the whole notion is.