Re: Pucker Up (RotW) (477 Views)
Posted by:
Barry Irwin (IP Logged)
Date: September 14, 2007 08:56PM
Twice this season, Team Valor fillies have run against Dreaming of Anna.
We beat her in the Gaily Gaily Stakes at Gulfstream with Audacious Chloe.
We ran second in the Pucker Up with the German import Touch My Soul.
Last season we ran against Anna at Woodbine.
I have seen her train and race a lot.
She is totally back on her game.
In the Pucker Up she set legit fractions, was tried twice before a half was run and simply ran the field off its legs.
I would like to say that the comments in general in this thread are very good, especially the part about numbers not being the whole story, especially with a front runner.
Here is one more insight: numbers, by and large, are not effective in assessing the form of grass races.
Nobody's numbers: especially Beyers, which on grass are the absolute worst.
Grass racing is not about numbers.
Numbers work on dirt, maybe synthetic surface, never on grass.
Most grass numbers, by the way, are pulled out of thin air, because they don't run enough grass races on a card each day to make an accurate number. And using numbers from the day before or the day after only serve to confuse the issue.