Songbird Has a Baby

[RHT2004]

Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes

In Delaware, she fought gamely for the win off of the lay-off. No shame in that.
In her lone loss, She was racing while injured and would have won if Mike Smith had taken her out to see Forever Unbridled coming. smith said he didn’t want to blow the ground going 5 paths out, but if he had to do it again, he would have give Songbird a chance to see her coming. The same Forever Unbridled that had no excuse in the Distaff, where Songbird got placed second in error. It’s all there to see on the slow motion replay where JD Bailey called Songbird the winner.

No excuse? An argument can be made that she was best in the Distaff that year. Slow pace shes the only horse to make up ground.
Forever Unbridled > Songbird

[Alabama Stakes]

Question. Answer honestly. Did you think FU was going by Songbird and Beholder in the Distaff ?

You see where FU was on the turn. When she is in that position, does she not usually roll by ? What happened? Certainly if she was better, she would have showed it late vs 2 who had battled head and head for so long.