Historcal Perspectives
 

I was looking back at last year's pre-entry racing form with all of the past performances. I was noticing the part where the list the winning Beyer figures from all of the past BC races and the average winning figure for each year. I wanted to look and see how this year's competitors stack up to the average winners.

The figures are going into but not including last year's numbers. With each race, I'm going to list the winning average along with the contenders from this year that have reached or passed that average. Also note that there are no winning Beyer's listed for the first four years of the BC.

Sprint-114
Midnight Lute-124
Benny the Bull-119
High Finance-115
Note that the two high figures came in the same race, at 7f, and that High Finance earned his at 8f.

Distaff-109
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I believe Hystericalady is the only one that's even gotten as high as 105.

Classic-118
Lawyer Ron-119
Lawyer Ron (119,117,114), Curlin (114,111), Street Sense (111,110) and Any Given Saturday (113,110) are the only likely contenders for the race that have even reached 110 this year.

Mile-111
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Turf-112
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F/M Turf-108
Royal Highness-108
Irridescence-108
Note that the two high figures came in the same race, at 9.5f