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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
Interesting list. I agree with most of it but would have had Strong Pretender winning the Dwyer at #2. He ran a mile and a sixteenth at a slower pace than Jazil won the Belmont in despite dealing with 3.5 less furlongs AND one less turn. Yet somehow they gave him a higher Beyer. If 1:45.25 is a 109 Beyer I would have loved to have seen what sort of figure an actual quality horse could have put up that day.
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The track was tremendously slow that day!!!
I believe statebred allowance horses went 7 furlongs in 1:27, or something absurdly slow like that, one race prior.
Tracks obviously don't stay the same speed all the time.