If RACHEL ALEXANDRA Wins The Belmont
 

7th

Greatest Horsie EVAH!

I'm going with..

"She Would The Best HORSE of All-Time"

LOL!

You're nuts.

Well, she'd clearly be the best 3YO filly since Go For Wand (I think she is already, however). How much beyond that you'd want to go is another issue.

I love a horse that takes a race by the throat, which is what she does.

Best horse named Rachel

I think the great three fillies from 94(?), Inside Information, Lakeway and Sardula, all would have run RA into the ground.

Well, that might be too strong, but I'd still take those three.

As opposed to the people trying to rank her before the race has even been run? Can you imagine this poll before Secretariat ran his Belmont? If Rachel gets loose on the lead setting fractions of 1:18 and then just holds off Mine that Bird by a nose it will be incredibly unimpressive. If Rachel wins by 31 lengths she'll be an all time great. To try and rank a horse on the assumption that they win a race without knowing anything about the actual dynamics of the race is pretty ridiculous.

I know. I was making fun of the poll, not you. My initial response to myself when I read the poll was "42".

Seven seemed arbitrary enough.