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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
Rachel had a real campaign that year...she didn't sit in NY beating tomato-can fillies all year...she won races like the Preakness and Haskell and Woodward...you know...against boys.
So by the time the BC Classic rolls around, she's done...everyone admits she was done...she was actually never the same again.
Combine that, with the crap synth track, and there was no ducking...it just wasn't happening...to say her connections ducked the BC Classic is right up there with saying Arrogate didn't have a massively bad trip in the DWC.
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I don't get the "she was sound" part. I thought the standard backstretch gossip was she came out of the Woodard with something wrong.
The ancillary evidence is the never really mentioned a race after the Woodard. It was like 72 hours after the race everyone in Assmussen's barn was like "Rachel who?"