Crist: The BC deserves NOT to have RA

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Your kidding right.

After Quality Road's race yesterday, do you think the chances of Rachel Alexandra competing in the Travers went up, went down, or remained the same?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

After Quality Road's race yesterday, do you think the chances of Rachel Alexandra competing in the Travers went up, went down, or remained the same?

i don't think they'll decide whether she goes based on quality road, but based on kensei. jackson seems seriously interested in trying the woodward with her and going to the travers with his other wknd winner. if they decides against the travers to run in the alabama instead, i'd be disappointed...but the woodward would be something.

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i don't think they'll decide whether she goes based on quality road, but based on kensei. jackson seems seriously interested in trying the woodward with her and going to the travers with his other wknd winner. if they decides against the travers to run in the alabama instead, i'd be disappointed...but the woodward would be something.

What do you think would present a more challenging race for Rachel: the Travers against Quality Road, Summer Bird and Mine That Bird, or the Woodward against Macho Again and Dry Martini?

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

What do you think would present a more challenging race for Rachel: the Travers against Quality Road, Summer Bird and Mine That Bird, or the Woodward against Macho Again and Dry Martini?

Kensei deserves a shot to win the Travers. Th eman invests a lot of money in this game and he deserves an opportunity to have Kensei win the Travers.. Rachel doesn't need to face her stable mate. Jackson can run her in the Woodward.. More Importantly will Rachel run at 4? She can be bred as late as June 1 especially since since Jess will race her foal.

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Kensei deserves a shot to win the Travers. Th eman invests a lot of money in this game and he deserves an opportunity to have Kensei win the Travers.. Rachel doesn't need to face her stable mate. Jackson can run her in the Woodward.. More Importantly will Rachel run at 4? She can be bred as late as June 1 especially since since Jess will race her foal.

If Jackson is intent on having Rachel face "the best" competition, as he professes, she should be in the Travers. She is the star. The Travers is a nationally-televised race on ESPN. The Woodward is not. Kensei's schedule should be secondary to Rachel's, not the other way around.

[freddymo]

Rachel is a filly.. She is suppose to go against fillies in the Alabama.. Kensei is a colt that Jess would like to establish as a major Stallion prospect. Is the guy not entitled to fix the deck alittle. Rachel against multiple Grade 1 winning older males isn't enough? Or are you a let's see if the filly is a real man and go to the Arc guy? lol

[freddymo]

You can't be serious Fatty? Your super bowl analogy is comical. And clearly the GO GO Rams would not be flattered by Green Bay in Jan on grass...Don't fcuk with me with Football.. You are still missing that Poly while creditable surface is not dirt, hence a dirt horse should have to prove there mettle on it.. As for Curlin I never liked the horse, thought he was a the overrated colt of all time..

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Rachel is a filly.. She is suppose to go against fillies in the Alabama.. Kensei is a colt that Jess would like to establish as a major Stallion prospect. Is the guy not entitled to fix the deck alittle. Rachel against multiple Grade 1 winning older males isn't enough? Or are you a let's see if the filly is a real man and go to the Arc guy? lol

No, that talk is foolish, but I'm not the one who said "champions should race against champions," as Jackson did when he bought her. I think Jackson wants to "challenge" her, but not too much. They have carefully managed where and when they race against the boys; the Preakness was a softer spot than the Belmont (hell, it was viewed as being such a soft race post-Derby that Barry Irwin was going to enter Hull until Rachel showed up), and putting her in any Saratoga spot other than the Travers, a race which by their own admission they are considering, would be opting for the path of lesser resistance.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Rachel is a filly.. She is suppose to go against fillies in the Alabama.. Kensei is a colt that Jess would like to establish as a major Stallion prospect. Is the guy not entitled to fix the deck alittle. Rachel against multiple Grade 1 winning older males isn't enough? Or are you a let's see if the filly is a real man and go to the Arc guy? lol

has nothing to do with whether she's a filly or a colt. if you have the best, you race that horse as such.

i think jess feels she can move up a step, while kensei possibly can handle the colts-leaving jess with two potential big wins. i wouldn't mind seeing rachel in the travers-but in a way, it's been there done that since she's now beaten the colts twice in gr 1's. the woodward has never been won by a distaffer-another first for rachel if she pulls it off.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

After Quality Road's race yesterday, do you think the chances of Rachel Alexandra competing in the Travers went up, went down, or remained the same?

Huh. The least of Rachel's worries are Quality Road.

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Huh. The least of Rachel's worries are Quality Road.

You don't think there's a difference between running against Quality Road and Summer Bird going 10F at Saratoga with Munnings and Summer Bird going 9F at Monmouth.