Welcome Betsy. It's nice to see a distaff post. My impression of Mineshaft is that he is now the top dirt handicap horse in America. The bad news was his unfortunate loss to Perfect Drift. The good news is that Azeri looks like she has a legitimate shot to break Cigar's record for consecutive wins, and her owner recently indicated that he was inclined to keep her in training next year if she had a shot to break a record which his father tied campaigning Cigar.