9/5 (SAR): Woodward (G1)

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

Wouldn't run a 3yo filly against older males...

Then you wouldn't own Very Subtle, Goldikova, Miesque, Ridgewood Pearl, Zarkava, or Six Perfections. All of those horses won BC races as 3yo fillies against older males.

As for whether or not this race is tougher than the Travers, they aren't being judged the same. You can't look at the results of the Travers and then say this race is tougher. Going into the Travers, as much as everyone wants to say now that Quality Road wasn't ready for it (and yes, there were some that said it beforehand), the truth is that nobody was sure just how good he was or if he just might be able to pull it off. He was the one member of his class that had run numbers in Rachel's stratosphere and the one that she hadn't beaten. There was also the 10f question for her to answer for the first time. If QR had won off by five, this question wouldn't be asked. In hindsight though, seeing how easily Summer Bird won and knowing how she dominated him, it's easy to say how she would have dominated that field. At 1-2, she's being expected to dominate this field too and people are saying this is a tougher race but what would you say if she wins by 10 against these? Judge it after the race like you are doing the Travers.