Just a Way
 

Trying to think of a more impressive performance on a world class stage in recent years and am drawing a total blank... anyone have one? I think we saw a very special horse today. Too early to drool about a matchup against Treve in this years Arc?

Agree..but one can not forget the mighty Frankel or Black Caviar :{>:

One could argue that Frankel and Black Caviar never ran against fields as tough as the one Just a Way made a mockery of today. Albeit they were both freaks.

Cesario maybe..

This. There were people Tweeting that we won't see another performance this good all year. It'll be tough to beat what he did to that salty field today

He has found some monster form over his last few races. His sire Heart's Cry also dominated in Dubai.

I ranked it with Lord Kanaloa's domination in Hong Kong Sprint last year - you just don't see turf sprinters win by a widening five lengths

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhDvLcf2NM8

Just A Way got a remarkable pace to run into, though.

The first 400m split of the Duty Free was 0.04 off the record time for 1800m turf races at Meydan, and it got progressively faster from there. Tokei Halo is a speedball with no other way to go but forward.

400m record - 24.98 (Tokei Halo 25.02)
800m record - 47.87 (Tokei Halo 47.12)
1200m record - 1:11.66 (Tokei Halo 1:10.53)
1600m record - 1:35.95 (Just A Way 1:34.04)
1800m record - 1:47.93 (Just A Way 1:45.52)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGQeYYrKccA

This was an absurd pace setup - the first five finishers broke the old final time record, essentially suggesting there were some career bests in the mix.

absolute freakish performance. he made the rest of the filed look like claimers. should get a monster timeform/speed figure.

After the race all I could say was wow.

An absurd pace indeed. Imagine what kind of splits we would be looking at if there was a run up. :zz: