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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
It's been explained in this thread.
He made an extremely premature move into a very contentious pace. This is not only hard to sustain but also against his style of running. He simply ran harder, for longer, and faster, than everybody else in the race. Sun King, who may be my personal favorite horse of all time, was the major beneficiary of this set up, and yet still couldn't beat him.
As an example, I bet Premium Tap when he won the Woodford for the simple reason that he too raced close to that pace in the Whitney, and still managed to finish at least reasonably close ( and he lost by 7 1/2 lengths ). If I thought he ran well you can only imagine how well I must think Invasor ran.
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Which is, for continued simplification's sake, to say that this race needs to be not viewed as just a race in itself. It needs to be compared to the other races that Invasor has been in. With that in mind, and looking at all of the other races he runs, this was an anomaly, and one that certainly could or
should have cost him the race. But it still didn't. He had every reason to lose after rushing up to Flower Alley against his running style (which at the time, seemed like a wise move because most thought FA would be similar to how he was the year before), yet still won.