EBLOUISSANTE -Santa Anita Race 2
 

For those that weren't aware, she is in race 2 today at Santa Anita. (25 minutes)

Second greatest horse EVAH!

1/9 and 66% show pool in 5 horse field

:rolleyes:

Off to the breeding shed. Then sell her babies and try and recoup the money that was spent on her..

Second greatest horse in the race

2nd :wf

Your probably right.

:D

And with an excellent trip.

Hey! It was her first start off a layoff.. cut her some slack will ya? :D

To be fair, it was her first off a 6+ month layoff and to her credit, tried to do something -- attend the pace -- that she'd never done before. It was the winner, who is graded stakes placed and 2nd/layoff, that got the favorable trip (as she plotted to).

She broke a bit slowly, and could have easily sat 3rd on the rail. But that wasn't good enough for Smith, who had to put her 3 wide and near the lead.. He then dropped back to where he would have been to begin with, except 3 wide instead of saving some ground. Came up short in the stretch. I'm not saying she's much, but she would have won that race with a smarter ride.

I agree that the winner got the best trip there, but to be fair, Ebblouissante got a pretty favorable trip behind the 5 pressing the 1 and had first run.

Can't disagree with your assessment of her race. Maybe she will get some black type when they move back over to Hollywood and race on synthetic.:). Seriously though, she will bring a pretty penny in the sales ring one day in foal to a hot stallion.

O.k, so we chalk this race up as an experiment, first race off a layoff and a bad ride by Mike Smith.

The next race she should really be "the one".

Hope we never have to hear about her again. That was a no-excuse loss to a freaking turf horse.

There was no evidence Macha was solely a turf horse. She never even tried dirt before, and the sire is Majestic Warrior, typically a dirt sire.

Yeah, I'm sure she'll turn out to be a real superstar on dirt. She ran almost 3 lengths slower than $8,000 claimers did in the previous race.

It does't look to good that the first race for 8k ran 2/5 faster.