Re: Stellar Wind (974 Views)
Posted by:
SoCalMan2 (IP Logged)
Date: October 27, 2017 08:29AM
Another element here is that she is a mare as opposed to a horse.
When I look at her sheet......i see a pattern that can be read one of two ways......(a) she is still the same horse she was before and the nature of her campaign is such that she has not been cranked up yet to get to peak performance and she is sitting on a peak performance.....(b) the other is that she came back as a different horse....and what you see this year is what the new horse is and what she did the prior years are not relevant to this year's pattern.
In general, looking at a sheet like this....if the horse in question is a horse or gelding, I would give a little bit more weight to (a) and less to (b).....if she is a mare....all of a sudden the (b) scenario needs to be giving more consideration.
I have not done any scientific research here and what I am saying could be just plain wrong. However, I have a sense from three decades of sheet reading that female horses and male horses SOMETIMES have different tendencies and that this difference needs to be factored into the analysis.
In a similar vein, I find Lady Aurelia's sheet extremely unusual for a 3yo filly and really do not know how to read it. If she were a colt, that sheet is an easy read....as a filly.....I just don't know.