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I couldn’t take Red Evie seriously in today’s company in Ireland. But the Michael Bell filly has now run up her seventh win, beating some of the best fillies in Europe.<br>I have to ask two questions …
1- Is this another ‘Attraction’?<br>2- How come she started at 100/1 in her first race, when trailing in 9th – her only defeat and considered a rag (slowly into stride, outpaced)??
It’s an interesting question :rolleyes:<br>If the filly is this good, how can that first run, and SP, be justified?
Red Evie is one of the best 3-y-o fillies around at present. Her Oak Tree win suggested as much after everything that could have gone wrong did, and she confirmed it yesterday. Peeress was probably a bit short of her best, would I wouldn’t be in any hurry to back Flashy Wings or Nannina to reverse form next time.
As for her debut run, clearly the Bell stable were laying her for every penny they had so they could get their stake money for her 3-y-o career. Either that, perhaps she was just a gross, backward filly at 2, that was very green on her debut and her trainer was desperate to get a run in to her so she would have at least some experience before she ran at 3.
I don’t really understand the Attraction comparison, if anything they are the complete opposite, one a very precociuous 2 yo, the other clearly slow to come to hand.
Hi, Im a new member and i was hoping Nannina won yesterday but i was not to be! But Red Evie must be very good to beat the likes of Nannina,also if you look at her last 4 races everthing she has beat(first 3 or 4 home) has since been placed in Listed company after and in 1 or 2 cases Grp3. But in the Sun Chariot which is her next target i reckon she will be hard pushed to beat SPECIOSA who ran very well on her comeback and was looked after by Mickey Fenton.
The comparison was more a question asking whether the public would embrace Red Evie in similar fashion to Attraction :)<br>I wasn’t comparing their abilities or attributes at all. Two very different fillies who have run up a sequence is the only comparison I am making.<br>For her to have improved some 60 – 65lbs on her first run would suggest that she was either as backward as a pit pony first time out, or she was there merely for some experience. It is the fact that she lived up to the 100/1 SP that startles me a little, knowing what we know now.
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