I've heard that comment over the last week with open-ended infinity. I know our sport wants a star badly, but we have had some awfully good three-year-old fillies that beat much more difficult competition by this time in their career, or they did so throughout their classic-year campaign.

There has been some pointed discussion about Stardom Bound's time in her Las Virgenes win on Saturday. She ran the race in 1:36 2/5 and received speed ratings in the area of 84-87. To take the time and the rating as the gospel for this race would be the equivalent of reading Cliffs Notes for the Bible, it just doesn't tell the whole story.