Miff,
Yes, I don\'t believe Ruffian developed much. Here, by the way, is Friedman writing in August of last year about Zenyatta and Rachel:
\"The most unusual aspect of the comparison between RA and ZEN is that they both have shown the ability to run top efforts on both dirt and poly. I think that there is some justice in your approach of comparing dirt horses to dirt horses and poly and grass horses similarly, but in this case it\'s not really necessary. Some of Zen\'s numbers may be slower because of slow paces (even after we make our correction) but her top effort is a point faster than RA\'s best and Zen has many efforts within a point or two of RA\'s top. RA\'s efforts are as a 3yo as against Zen\'s top form at 4yo, but there are no guarantees that RA will be able to run faster numbers in the future even if she is campaigned as a 4yo (we can only hope that will be the case). They are head and shoulders the best of any mares in modern times and to me it would be hard to pick the likely winner if they were to match up on dirt or poly.\"
