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Originally Posted by RXB
Nice try. You referred to all five of them as "fraudulent." I think you need to take your own advice regarding critical thinking, as I'd just love to watch horses like St. Trinians and Switch take on TP allowance horses.
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You really don't get it, do you? Do you even know what a metaphor is? Switch (3 for 10 lifetime) and Rinterval (3 for 25 lifetime) wound up as sprinters that started in the BC F&M Sprint at 8-1 and 55-1 and never exceeded a 100 Beyer. St Trinians was a low level handicapper at second tier courses in England before stepping up a bit on SoCal plastic but was trounced by males in the Santa Anita Handicap yet finished only a half length behind the queen. Then there's Taptam with a lifetime 9 for 31 who was beaten 10 1/2 and 14 lengths in her two previous graded stakes attempts but got to within 4 1/2 of Zenyatta. How about Dance To My Tune (4 for 35) with two listed stakes wins in Canada but able to stay within 1 1/4 lengths of "the greatest mare ever"? On further consideration I'd say not one of those fives races legitimately deserved a graded stakes designation. But that's what you get when you grade races months before they are run.
