"Perfect" definetly got a patented Mike Smith ride, but to give Smith a break, you just couldn't really expect Perfect to run well the first race after his duel in the desert, no matter how impressive his works were -- I'm amazed that he even came back so soon -- that Dubai trip usually wrecks them for life. Still, that race was awfully cheap for a Graded Stakes, so I don't know what to expect for the Pacific classic and beyond. Nation ran tremendous -- to rally from that far back on the Del Mar main track which has been very kind to speed so far -- it just blows my mind. Not unlike Summer Wind Dancer's win at Delaware -- Mullins' runners do amazing things -- anything you ask them to do. I've never seen anything like it.