A League of Her Own (559 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: September 17, 2007 08:25PM
Just so folks are clear, Rags to Riches had never faced Lear's Princess until her career ending defeat. Lear's Princess IS in a differenet league from Raqs to Riches, that league is the league of horses that Rags to Riches did not beat.
Rags cooled out fine after the race and per usual showed no sign of having been injured until she slept on the injury. Game race horses rarely feel these things and if they do they don't let them impede their run. If Rags lost time in that race you can measure it by milliseconds. Afleet Alex won the Belmont with a similar bone type injury.
The problem Rags faced is she was not quite as fast as given credit for and while she was away others matured into her zone.
Lost Cause Wrote:
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> It looks like she has a hairline fracture that
> happened during the stretch run of the Gazelle.
> Makes sense...when looking at that race Rags just
> did not look right down the stretch..not to take
> anything away from Lear's Princess but she is not
> in the same league as Rags when right...