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06-21-2010, 11:54 PM
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that being said, you'd need to have a better understanding of things to, well, understand why she is overrated. for starters, most of her career was spent running against pretty mediocre fillies, high figs or not. she also seemed to find ways to lose in the really big races she was in. Beautiful Pleasure was a really good mare, but some of these others she lost to, or struggled to beat, they left alot to be desired. she was visually speaking, not that impressive a horse. watching her, i always felt like i was watching a plodder that was picking off tired horses that had nothing left. i never did understand the high figs she got, as she almost always ran slow times, with slow closing fractions coming after decent to moderate paces. certainly not every time, but in the first half of her career, she screamed plodder to me. finally, there was just this intangible quality about her that's hard to convey in a post. back in those days, i was no lover of eastern racing, but there were plenty of horses in the east that i was a big fan of. I say this, because i had the utmost confidence that she'd lose the Oaks, and both appearances in the distaff, and it had nothing to do with me being a biased fan of california racing. the fact that a pretty mediocre keeper hill found ways to beat her also confirmed to me that she was overrated, and that her figs were fishy. other than all that, maybe you should go watch a few races of hers. 
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