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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
Sassy Image was a complete and utter bum before her magic form reversal in the Humana Distaff.
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How do you know? She had made all of 2 starts in the previous 15 months.
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One of the luckiest breaks I got all year is that I did not bring my Internet card with my laptop to the track that day ... because I would have lost every dollar betting against Sassy Image in the betting exchange that day ... and probably tossed my laptop across the clubhouse.
I remember someone came over to me after that race and told me they bet on Sassy Image and showed me a ticket and I was mad enough to choke them.
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Seems to me like you're failing to recognize that in retrospect, Sassy Image made some sense in that race, at least as a contender. She won 2 subsequent stakes following that "miracle". She was injured in the Ballerina, just as she apparently was in the Sabin earlier in the year, and in the Davona Dale in 2010. Draw a line through all those races and how does her form look?
I'm not suggesting you or anyone else should have had her on race day, but with all the subsequent information, Sassy Image turned out to be a good example of the limitations of past performances. I wouldn't doubt there were some astute people at the track who took a gamble that she was better than the Sabin suggested.
Instead of pretending that Romans put one over on everyone, just admit that your handicap of the race was botched and bring a red pen along with your laptop next time.