Hard to disagree with the facts and logic:


'Whilst Samantha Miss has everyone excited, she hasn’t even proven she’s any good yet - away from the sanctity of her won age and/or own age and sex.

Why do I query where Samantha Miss sits in the general score of things? Well she lacks the only two things she ever needs to become something great in life - 1) acceleration and 2) an ability to run fast time overall.

Granted she hasn’t been given the opportunity “to run time overall” on many occasions, as she’s encountered “dead” tracks thrice, a “slow ” track once and “heavy” tracks on another two occasions.

I’d also declare that Samantha Miss has never beaten a decent horse. You might say she beat Sebring and that is true, but I can assure you he was no revelation as a racehorse. Samantha Miss had the advantage of racing in 2YO races grossly affected by Equine Influenza - when quality fellow 3YO gallopers like Victorian Whobegotyou and fellow New South Welshman Dreamscape hadn’t even debuted.

Media outlets keep fanning the Samantha Miss bushfire with talk of this “champion” filly, but if you take one step back and smell the roses, she has earned her reputation through defeating legless excuses of racehorses – the likes of Glowlamp. As at right this minute, that filly Glowlamp is such a revelation that she is still a Maiden after nine starts. Yet Glowlamp would seem to be a fair litmus test for Samantha Miss as she has been competitive with Samantha Miss the last five times they’ve met - (4th in the Sires Produce when Samantha Miss ran 2nd, 3rd to Samantha Miss in the Champagne Stakes, 2nd to Samantha Miss in the Silver Shadow, 5th to her in the Furious Stakes and 3rd to her in the Tea Rose Stakes).

Now if Samantha Miss is the “champion” filly that all these media urgers incessantly ramble on about, well there are only two analogies one can logically make –1) that Glowlamp must be pretty special too, because if one is a “champion” then the other one that can go with her must be at least “special”, - yet hang on – remember what I just said “Glowlamp is still a Maiden after nine starts”. The second analogy is that the possibility exists that both Samantha Miss and Glowlamp are only ordinary.

Love And Kisses has proven she can also be competitive with Samantha Miss. Now whilst competing in the sanctity of racing her own age group, she ran 2nd to Samantha Miss in the Sires Produce, 3rd to Samantha Miss and Glowlamp in the Silver Shadow and 2nd to Samantha Miss in the Furious Stakes. By the law of logic, that would all tend to suggest that there is also not a lot separating Samantha Miss and Love And Kisses ability wise - yet Love And Kisses got run over by the males last Saturday at Randwick after having every possible chance.'

Purser, 2.10.08