I think she's being handled perfectly. She came back well short of her best, but good enough to handle the weak fillies she was spotted against.

IMO, this race was much better than the first race back. If it wasn't faster (and I think it probably was), it's because of the slow pace. The filly that finished second is OK.

She closed well off that slow pace. Had she had a little more pace in front of her, she might have put up an even faster figure and won off even bigger.

I think she will continue to move forward. To me this is textbook perfect handling.

The obvious problem is that she's a filly. Even though fillies are usually ahead of colts "development wise" at this point (which gives them some chance in the Derby), I think a couple of the colts have already put up figures that suggest that by the time May rolls around they are going to be pretty good.

The West coast colts look pretty dreadful though. So she may have a pretty good shot in SA Derby.

The main contention might be Lukas's Once Wild whose chances in his last race may have been compromised by the rail not being the place to be.