Saturday, May 5, 2012

Scared of Girls ...

I'd consider myself a "mare person."  Most of my best horse-relationships have been with mares.  I've always felt that nothing beats a mare for heart if you make the connection with her.
I'm sitting here "studying" for contracts and watching the Derby Pre-show, wondering why it is that you hardly ever see any fillies in the Derby.  I know some people think it's because the boys are faster, but I don't think that's the case at all.  Like I said, if you have the right relationship with a mare, I submit that she can out-try any colt there is.  Here's my thought as to why you don't see more champion fillies: they just aren't as profitable as a champion colt, so why enter them in a prestigious race like the Derby?
If your colt wins the Derby, he's a super star that you can now breed to lots of mares in one year, for exorbitant prices.  If your filly wins the derby, she's a super star that can have 1 foal every year, if that.  Sure, your filly might have won you tons of money in races, but she won't earn you as much as a colt once she's retired.  Maybe I'm just being crazy, but it's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with, considering that I don't believe the fillies are inherently slower than the colts.  I think that at the end of the day, it makes money-sense to just run the girls against the girls, because when she has a foal, you can say "look how much better she is than all the other mares who foaled this year AND look at her Derby-winning dad!"

For the record, I think Zenyatta outclasses and could outrun the best of the boys (and she and Dee share a granddaddy, which makes me love her more).

Anyway, I'm just babbling on at this point.  That's just my 2 cents... 2 biased cents.




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