It would be interesting to see Commentator, Big Brown and Curlin go at it. Either Commentator would get loose on the lead and run away or Big Brown would go with him setting it up for Curlin.

Too bad the BCC is on the polytrack. NYRA needs to put up $5m for the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Tie it into a bonus if a horse wins the JCGC and BCC.

commentator ran huge in defeat.. hope he comes out of it well...
devine park is very good right now..congrats to chuck for picking this out at the sale........

The final 1/4 in the Met Mile was 27.30 ...

The final 1/4 in the 7th race, a one mile pace at the Meadowlands harness track today was 27.80 and the horse who won that race was 40/1.

Makes you wonder how the great Lord Snowdon didn't win.

Is that final quarter time actually right?? Seems almost impossible to be correct. DRF still has it listed as 1:09.61, 1:36.91.

It's correct. Here's the chart with the splits.

Outside of the Whitney, this was probably Commentator's best race. At least he wasn't facing NY breds or 40K claiming types. That said, this wasn't the strongest edition of the Met Mile.

I don't think this race was any better than his third in the Tom Fool last year.

I was foolish in failing to read through the pp's that First Defence would be going balls out from the gate. Commentator needed an easy first quarter and he did not get that today. I told a few people the race would be decided in the first two furlongs. 22.48 was not what the first quarter I anticpated. The second quarter which was run in 22.04 was too much for Commentator to sustain a strong stretch run.

Commentator ran his eye balls out and I think it's a great thing to see a 7 year old run a race like he did. At least a decent horse in Devine Park was the one who benefitted from the fast early fractions.

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Divine Park 109

Unless they split the variant, this number is going to be too high. That gives Manteca in the 3rd about a 103, and Alexandros a 94.

This does, however, fit with the # Beyer had for Emotival in Argentina.

Yeah, I can't believe this nonsense. "That's too low for the Met".. "Raise it".. "Wait, that's too high for Manteca".. "Uh, lower it"..

So the track started out slow, somehow got faster in between the second and third races, then got slow again?

Agreed... if the number sucked, the number sucked. It's certainly reasonable to be bad, as nobody did any running late, obviously. Why sugarcoat it?

Well there were big gaps between the dirt races. . .

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The 109 was for the first 6 furlongs. Beyer split the variant on the last quarter.:p

Cool chart, to me looking at that the slowish third quarter really helped Divine Park get back into it, and then the complete crawl at home let him win.

Second slowest running in the past 60 years.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but they ran the second and third races back to back, on dirt at a mile. I'd be interested to see what BSF's those races got. Manteca ran 2.76 seconds faster than Emotival, which should give him a way bigger figure. If those two are in line with the Met, then Manteca should get around a 103 and Emotival about a 70 or so, no?

It depends on what you do with the sixth. I don't know how you'd translate that 1:20.57 to a mile, but the winning BSF of that race should've been high 50's/low 60's.

Considering First Defence's immense talent I can't understand how the race got below a 130.