No offense, but I think Alphabet Kisses looks terrible. Aside from how the Thoro-Pattern looks, this mare's routes are always worse than her sprints and her turf outings are worse than her dirt outings. She has always moved backward going to routes and her turf numbers are always worse than her surrounding figures. While I think you can throw out the last race, she still would be moving backward off a 5 which is what would be needed here. I very much like the ROTW analysis. In addition to the nod to Memorette and Thrilling Victory, I think Queenmab'sdaughter is very interesting (as hinted to in the ROTW).

I am not sure how that generic blinkers stat can apply to individual horses. I acknowledge that you can see on some horses that blinkers off has a huge impact (Volponi instantly comes to mind -- especially on Rags (but you need the PPs to get the right blinker info because they had it wrong on the sheet)), but this mare just went off at 7-5 with blinkers off and lost by 8 lengths in a race that is her bread and butter.

The only thing she has going for her is that I am throwing her out!