Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Travis Stone
but wonder if she can keep this up with hard race after hard race.
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Travis Stone
In all seriousness, I'm referring to that old saying about horses in that there's only so much juice there to squeeze. Just because she wasn't whipped does not mean the race did not take anything out of her. She's run three really big races now in less than two months and we're only in June.
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Travis Stone
I'm not taking anything away from her, I'm just saying it'll be hard to continue to duplicate these performances throughout the rest of the year, especially in races like the Travers where there will be more quality to test her at certain parts of the race, after continual big effort after big effort. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying this.
|
She won two of her last three by 20 lengths! The above quotes make it seem like she's been in a complete drive to do it over and over when it's been the opposite.
Her connections did the right thing in skipping the Belmont and they've obviously been rewarded with a filly who's still just as good as she was earlier in the spring. I just don't understand how you or anyone could watch that effort and wonder if she can continue to run at a high level when it's exactly what she's done now for the better part of five months.
NT