Silverbulletday VS Rachel Alexandra through Aug of 3yo season

[Thunder Gulch]

I was a huge fan of SBD, and vividly remember standing at Churchill when she was asked to run in the Oaks and being awestruck at how easily she cruised past the front runners. I'll always believe she would have won that Derby, and was mad that Baffert entered the wrong filly in the wrong race.

With that said, Rachel has done more to this point by virture of going where no other fillies dared. While SBD could have (would) won the Derby or Preakness, Rachel did win the Preakness. SBD's wins that followed were very impressive, but RA stepped out again to take the Haskell vs the colts by open lengths.

Either way you want it, they are the two best 3yo fillies I've seen in my 20 years of closely following the sport.