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05-17-2018 06:02 PM |
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Originally Posted by upthecreek
(Post 2317917)
I just posted that too I only caught the tail end Apparently Dave Weaver checks in here as well
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Industry "insiders" and turf media steal from this site all the time.
Here's a quote from a Blood-Horse article on Songbird dated June 5 of last year:
Porter also touted the nugget, unearthed by his assistant Victoria Keith, that Songbird will be in rare company if she wins the Phipps. Over the last 25 years, only one 3-year-old filly Eclipse Award winner returned to start her 4-year-old season with a winning effort in a grade 1 contest.
That would be the great Hall of Fame runner Serena's Song, who won the Santa Monica Stakes (G1) in her return. Champions who failed to do so include Ashado (fifth in the grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap), Stellar Wind (second to Beholder in the grade 1 Vanity Mile Stakes), and Surfside (third in the Santa Monica).
Now here's what I posted about a week earlier on PA on May 30 of last year:
In the last 25 years, only 4 champion 3yo fillies made their 4yo debuts in a Grade 1 race:
Serena's Song
Surfside
Ashado
Stellar Wind
Only Serena's Song won. She took the 7f Santa Monica in January less than 3 months after her loss in the BC Distaff.
My real name isn't Victoria and I certainly don't receive paychecks from Rick Porter (although if he PMs me I will reply with a forwarding address)...
Kind of take offense at the "unearthed" comment--like we're a bunch of miners trapped under a landslide in Tierra Del Fuego.
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