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Originally Posted by boldruler
Horse that win in June are winning at 5F races. It is completely useless for a horse that needs to stretch out to 10F. All you get now are speed freaks that everyone goes crazy over but that have zero chance of winning the derby.
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Are you sure about that? I have listed below the number of derby winners that debuted in each month for the past fourteen years.
June 3
July 2
August 1
Sept 3
Oct 3
Nov 1
Dec 1
As it turns out June is a pretty popular month to debut a future derby winner.
Also all of the June starts were at 5 furlongs so that distance would appear to be quite useful in getting a horse to 10F. This is not a huge amount of data but it is enough to show how far off base your comment was.