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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
What Sassy Image looked like coming into this race....she stalked a pace that was slow on everyones pace figures and still backed up.
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You're being disingenuous here. We're supposed to be looking at this retrospectively. Obviously one would gather from the fucl<ing 11 month layoff between Feb '10 and Jan '11 that something was amiss with Sassy Image. Are you really taking the Davona Dale at face value?
As for the Sabin, even if we don't know about the wind issue, at the very least, the fact that she was sent to press the front end was atypical of all her previous starts (including her comeback just a month prior). One could suggest that the change of tactics completely backfired, and therefore the race could be tossed. The fact that she was entered in a Grade 1 off the Sabin strengthens that notion.
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But yeah. Sassy Image just made so much sense. She hadn't run a Beyer higher than 89 in her career... She hadn't won a race in a year and a half. She just got drowned by 14 lengths stalking a slow pace. How did she not figure to win this Grade 1 by open lengths?
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Again, you're being disingenuous. She hadn't won a race in a year because she hadn't
run in a race in a fucl<ing year. You know that young horses mature, strengthen, progess, develop, etc. so who gives a sh!t about her 2yo Beyers? If she doesn't have races in her PPs that illustrate this progression then obviously one's hands are tied. But again, Romans saw fit to run her in a Grade 1 off 2 comeback races.
You simply don't want to read between the lines. Or maybe you're just not much handicapper right now.
Try some throat surgery.