Ron Ellis claims East Coast Bias

[Calzone Lord]

This wouldn't be as noteworthy if he wasn't also a TVG analyst.

This is what Ellis said about Include Me Out...

“To tell you the truth, I’ve been a little insulted by the lack of respect my filly has gotten,” Ellis said during a national teleconference on Tuesday. “She’s proven she’s the best filly on the West Coast but I understand the East Coast bias and the press building up those other fillies. But my filly loves that track and she’s done everything we’ve asked of her this year. Usually when they hook our California horses, reality sets in,”

It shouldn't be that hard to figure out why the press gives more attention to the Eastern horses.

Royal Delta is a champion and her and It's Tricky ran 1-2 in the BC Distaff last year.

My Miss Aurelia is an undefeated champion 2yo, not only did she win the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies in blowout fashion -- but she ran faster than Union Rags and a soundly defeated Alpha did on the same day and distance in similarly paced editions of the Frizette and Champagne.

Questing was basically the star of the entire Saratoga meet. Winning two Grade 1's in dominant fashion. One at 9fs and the other at 10fs.

Awesome Feather is a perfect 10-for-10 lifetime and was a champion 2-year-old filly after she won the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies.


No knock on Include Me Out -- she's a 2-time Grade 1 winner over the course of her 11 race career -- but anyone who is "insulted" by her not getting as much attention as those other horses and thinks it's because of a "East Coast Bias" is basically whining.