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Old 04-15-2007, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by todko
He didn't even get motoring until the last 1/16th. Was behind Street Sense and went around him with no difficulty. Watch the horses running out after.

Street Sense staggered off slow fractions. That's a dud on the first Saturday in May.
Forgetting also, that Sense's biggest success has come as a one-run closer. Sitting just a few lengths off of a dawdling pace set by a vanity entrant wasn't exactly his typical running style. It reminded me a lot more visually of the Breeders Futurity last fall over the very same track, albeit with a different pace scenario. And we all know how that story ended.....

On Derby Day you won't find him tracking leaders three lengths off of fractions of 51.2 or 1:16.3 either.

I think he should have won, but it's not like the Derby is going to have the same ridiculous shape that this one did.
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