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Originally Posted by CSC

The horse's she beat in the classic were just awful, only 2 that have come back to race in 2010 have yet to win a grade 1. Twice Over, Awesome Gem, Rip Van Winkle, Gio Ponti have all come back to win grade 1's this year. Which translates into a fat 67% of the horses she has run against in the Classic that are still running today have won grade 1 wins thus far. Yep it's brutal.

Great, 3 turf horses and the ancient grinder Awesome Gem.

It was nice to see Gio Ponti finally win a stretch duel for a change in his Grade 1 ... even though the 2nd place finisher was defeated in a race he was claimed for 35K out of last time out.



Yeah, claim a New York bred for 35K, watch it get beat, enter in a Grade 1 stakes next out and almost win. Good plan. Props to trainer Naipual Chatterpaul for having the brains to realize the turf horses here suck balls.

Rip Van Winkle was on the fence to even run in the Classic because of a foot issue. He did run - and ran like an utter cripple .. he beat almost no one and even Mine That Bird finished a huge margin in front of him ... the same MTB that ran dead last over the same track in the BC Juvie the prior year and was later soundly crushed by Gitano Hernando .. some phony from Europe with a Latino Prison sounding name who made a mockery of the Goodwood Stakes field.

Awesome Gem came East and ran on dirt - he got smoked at Charles Town and smoked at Lone Star