A subtly good day for Street Sense

I encountered three first-time starters for him on Sunday. Here's how they fared:
Ice Cream Silence, 2nd in a 10-horse, 6 1/2 furlong maiden special weight at Keeneland; Toxis, 4th in the same race. Vionnet, 4th by 4 in a 7-horse, 5 1/2 furlong maiden special weight at Santa Anita. Ice Cream Silence broke slowly if not horrendously, but poorly enough that she was a good length behind the otherwise last away. Vionnet broke flat out horrendously, perhaps losing as much ground as she was beaten by.

A daughter of the neat turf sprinter Cambiocorsa, she went off a slight favorite. She took the far turn on the rail, though, and despite the bad break, oddly wasn't that impressive overall. She was dull in the stretch; "not doing enough," as Trevor Denman said. But mathematically, you know she ran pretty well, and against good competition.

That's one thing I like about what these Street Senses did: if they were running at 'B' tracks, and not against each other, they might all have been winners. Not that we expect anything less of horses out of these kinds of mares than to win at 'A' tracks.