Should Songbird retire?

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by tanner12oz

She had an was lead saturday race was hers to lose..slow,fractions not tested. Should have been a romp..obviously something is amiss or everyone has caught up..when fillies go bad they stay bad..retire her

The race was nearly identical to her race in the BC Distaff. She responded when challenged mid stretch and just failed to last. Note Eskenformoney, who made a run at her along the fence, got her head ripped off, just like I'm A Chatterbox when she came at her in the BC last year. Forever Unbridled looked like she was going to crash the party last year when Songbird had an easy trip, so it shouldn't be particularly shocking that she was able to turn the tables in a race on relatively neutral ground.

Songbird has not "gone bad" by any stretch of the imagination. It's almost as if the naysayers want her gone now that she got beat again...I presume in case she happens to step up in her next two and ruins the "I told you so" party.