Midnight Lucky--shades of Rachel A???

[Eight Belles]

TGJB Wrote:
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> P Dub, you get a brief reply and then that\'s it
> for this wildly interesting discussion.


Why would you put the brakes on an interesting discussion that readers here are enjoying, hence the number of posts?

[PonyBologna]

So let me get this straight...some of you want to allow a filly to run with the boys without proving she can run with the boys? I don\'t see the issue with asking a filly to run in a race like the SA or FL Derby to earn the points required to make the KD.

If the filly is the star that some are using in their examples then she should have no trouble earning the necessary points.

[Eight Belles]

PonyBologna Wrote:
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> So let me get this straight...some of you want to
> allow a filly to run with the boys without proving
> she can run with the boys? I don\'t see the issue
> with asking a filly to run in a race like the SA
> or FL Derby to earn the points required to make
> the KD.
>
> If the filly is the star that some are using in
> their examples then she should have no trouble
> earning the necessary points.

Are the colts all stars?  What if we made that demand of them?  It\'d reduce the field to perhaps a colt or two.

I\'d rather the owners/trainers manage their fillies instead of Churchill Downs.  We saw what 2 tough dirt routes can do to a horse like Rachel, didn\'t we?  Fillies can have equal or superior talent but they\'re not as physically strong as their male counterparts.

[Wrongly]

Oh, you\'re beating this to death.  Newflash; 3-year old fillies have a race, it\'s called the Kentucky Oaks.