Crist: The great distaffers..

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Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

Sky Beauty is a good example that not all horses are made for shipping. From what I understand, and granted maybe I got some bad info, she just fell apart when she had to get on a plane or traveled and great distance.

I have no idea if Sky Beauty could have beat Hollywood Wildcat or One Dreamer if the race was in NY but going into the gate anyone around that horse knew she had little chance after the ship.

Jerkens didnt want to run her in either BC. Both years she was tailing off (especially in her 4 year old year) and wasnt doing that well but Mrs. Hoffman and her team of advisors wouldn't hear any of it. Smith said that she didnt handle the CD track and that was why she wasn't closer to the pace as usual. But jockeys pretty much always say that after a bad race so who knows. In the SA race she never ran a step and considering she came into the race off of a 7 week layoff he was telling you something.

She had some physical issues and if you notice that after each campaign she didnt run again for 6 months which is out of character for a Jerkens horse.